tromanow
August 26th, 2010, 09:36 PM
Have the same problem and can't uninstall, seemingly due to circular dependencies among firefox, firefox-3.0, firefox-branding and firefox-3.0-branding. Any idea how to break out of that?
# apt-get remove firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-3.0: Depends: firefox
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox: Depends: firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-branding
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-3.0-branding
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox: Depends: firefox-3.0-branding but it's not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
# apt-get remove firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-3.0: Depends: firefox
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox: Depends: firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-branding
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox-3.0-branding: Depends: firefox-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).
apt-get remove firefox-3.0-branding
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firefox: Depends: firefox-3.0-branding but it's not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s
olution).