Firefox Upgrade Problem

[acascianelli]

Firefox 1.0.7 was just released into backports. When I try to upgrade to it thru synaptic I get these errors...


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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', which is also in package firefox
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so', which is also in package firefox-gnome-support
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...Anybody else getting these errors? It broke firefox, I can not start it at all now. I'm forced to use epiphany for now.

[mtrythall]

Firefox 1.0.7 was just released into backports. When I try to upgrade to it thru synaptic I get these errors...


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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic', which is also in package firefox
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so', which is also in package firefox-gnome-support
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...Anybody else getting these errors? It broke firefox, I can not start it at all now. I'm forced to use epiphany for now.

I'm having the same problem, and came here to see if anyone had a fix. Being as I have the DOM inspector, I also get a message about that (same thing, trying to overwrite it). Anyone have any suggestions?

[sk545]

Yep, i had the same problem just now. Its really stupid that they changed their package name from 'firefox' and 'firefox-gnome-support' to 'mozilla-firefox' and 'mozilla-firefox-gnome-support'. I have no idea as to why they did this, but the update manager is telling you that you are trying to overwrite something in one package onto another which has the same files, and they just need to be updated. The update manager isn't smart enough to tell that they are both the same packages. Why they change the names? Well, its Linux. Its how things are sometimes.

Anyhow, to fix this mess, you have to remove the packages 'firefox' and 'firefox-gnome-support' first before installing the the update. Don't expect that to go so easily if you already tried to update, since it messes up apt, and you will get errors. Took me quite a while, and at the end i had to do this:

$ cd /var/cache/apt/archives
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox firefox-gnome-support

Extremely dumb on the package maintainers part to change the names of the packages all of a sudden.

[mtrythall]

Just tried it, it works. I'm working through the DOM inspector problem now. Like I said, I got this error message:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-dom-inspector_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions/{641d8d09-7dda-4850-8228-ac0ab65e2ac9}/components/libinspector.so', which is also in package firefox-dom-inspector

I tried the commands you provided, replacing the package names (.debs) with the one the DOM inspector used. And then I just ran the purge using the old names. Worked like a charm, I'm now up-to-date.

Thanks again!

[acascianelli]

Worked here too...But now Epiphany is broken But it's ok cause I got Firefox working again.

[debaser13]

Alright, well, I ran the commands issued above and now Firefox in apt-get and symantic say it is up-to-date but I can't get it to work. I can't install the dom-inspector stuff because it says it has unmet dependencies...any suggestions?

Thanks.

Carl

[NabsS]

I did something which worked. Here's what I did.

 
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -r --force-all firefox
sudo dpkg -r --force-all firefox-gnome-support
sudo apt-get upgrade
and, if asked
sudo apt-get -f install

[xavierh]

I did something which worked. Here's what I did.

 
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -r --force-all firefox
sudo dpkg -r --force-all firefox-gnome-support
sudo apt-get upgrade
and, if asked
sudo apt-get -f install

good post... I tested in on my of my vmware sessions and it works....

[nubbe]

good post... I tested in on my of my vmware sessions and it works....

Worked for me on a "real" install...

[petrol]

I had to kill the firefox-bin process for it to work.