Recent Firefox security update

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:17:32PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> The security update failed to install and broke my existing firefox. 
> Here is the "apt-get upgrade" output:
[...]
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic',
> which is also in package firefox

Why do you have a 'firefox' package installed at all in Hoary?
mozilla-firefox wasn't renamed to firefox until after Hoary released, so
this must be a poorly-created backport.

I suggest removing firefox, firefox-dom-inspector, and
firefox-gnome-support, and trying the upgrade again.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]