Premature use of Breaks causes apt failure
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Ian Jackson |
Bug Description
apt attempts to upgrade to firefox 1.99+2.
mizar:[/tmp] sudo apt-get -f install
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
firefox
Suggested packages:
latex-xft-fonts libthai0
The following packages will be upgraded:
firefox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/8640kB of archives.
After unpacking 262kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Reading changelogs... Done
dpkg: regarding .../firefox_
firefox breaks firefox-
firefox-
dpkg: error processing /space/
installing firefox would break firefox-
deconfiguration is not permitted (--auto-deconfigure might help)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/space/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
zsh: exit 100 sudo apt-get -f install
mizar:[/tmp] sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-
firefox-
Version of firefox on system is 1.99+2.
dpkg: error processing firefox-
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
firefox-
Changed in firefox: | |
assignee: | nobody → ijackson |
importance: | Untriaged → High |
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