Re: Problems installing firefox

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/25/05

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    Adam Richard wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm new to Debian. I installed using the Debian Sarge minimal CD and
    > installed a Desktop system over the Internet. Then I did "apt-get
    > install mozilla-firefox" and I got the following errors:
    >
    > Unpacking mozilla-firefox (from
    > .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.4-2sarge5_i386.deb) ...
    > Setting up mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) ...
    > Updating mozilla-firefox chrome
    > registry.../usr/sbin/update-mozilla-firefox-chrome: line 106: 2069
    > Aborted firefox-bin -register >/dev/null 2>&1
    > E: Registration process existed with status: 134
    > E: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions/installed-extensions.txt still
    > present. Registration might have gone wrong.
    > mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults.ini': No such file
    > or directory
    > dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox (--configure):
    > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > mozilla-firefox
    > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    I'd suggest "aptitude purge mozilla-firefox", followed by "aptitude
    install mozilla-firefox".

    You're not out of drive space on a partition, are you? 

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Kent
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