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firefox-branding: Upgrade to lucid from Hardy is broken because of firefox.desktop

Bug #518282 reported by Fabrice Coutadeur on 2010-02-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #513074: firefox-3.0 transitional packages missing (file overwrite issue on Lucid upgrade). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Hi,

I'm upgrading an up-to-date Hardy chroot, with firefox 3.0 installed:
apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
*** 3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

when upgrading to Lucid, I'm getting an error when installing firefox-branding, because of firefox.desktop file:
...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package firefox-3.0 0:3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This is because firefox-branding should Conflicts/Replaces Firefox-3.0.

Fabrice

Revision history for this message

Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-02-07:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 513074, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.