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Re: ubufox and xul-ext-ubufox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Mar 8 10:13:18 2012
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 10:13:16 -0500
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To: "Jacob A Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
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Jacob is still running Lucid. The interwebs tell me that a bunch of people had a similar problem last summer, and suggest that this was fixed by marking xul-ext-ubufox for removal and ubufox for upgrade in Synaptic, and applying changes.
-Jon
On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Jacob A Morzinski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My debathena machine has developed some kind of problem with Apt.
> Jon looked at it and asked me to send some status output to this
> list.
>
> Unfortunately the problem is blocking me from installing new
> software or taking security udpates, it would be good to get some
> kind of fix for it. (I do have ksplice uptrack running on
> computer so hopefully my kernel is okay, but I'd like to install
> new packages.)
>
>
>
> The problem:
> - apt-get and the GUI package manager complain that one package
> is broken, "ubufox". The broken package blocks me from
> installing updates.
>
>
> Trying to use the GUI update manager halts with an error window,
> with the message:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/etc/xul-ext/ubufox.js', which is also in package ubufox 0
> ----------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> Trying to use command line "aptitude install" gives an error when
> unpacking xul-ext-firefox:
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xul-ext-ubufox{a}
> The following partially installed packages will be configured:
> ubufox
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/59.7kB of archives. After unpacking 365kB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
> Writing extended state information... Done
> (Reading database ... 518592 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xul-ext-ubufox (from .../xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite '/etc/xul-ext/ubufox.js', which is also in package ubufox 0:0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xul-ext-ubufox_0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubufox:
> ubufox depends on xul-ext-ubufox; however:
> Package xul-ext-ubufox is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing ubufox (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ubufox
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> ----------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Thanks for looking at this,
>
> -Jacob
>
> --
> Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
>
