begin Kevin C. Smith quotation: > Running SID. Did apt-get upgrade on 2/10 and mozilla failed to upgrade. > Not sure if this is a packaging problem or my system got hosed in some > way. Now I am unable to install it or remove it. > > #INSTALL ATTEMPT > debian:/home/kevin# apt-get install mozilla-browser > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, mozilla-browser is already the newest version. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.8-1) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec > format error > dpkg: error processing mozilla-browser (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > mozilla-browser > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I'm guessing, but it looks to me like your mozilla-browser package is corrupt. You might try manually downloading it (with wget or a browser, since apt doesn't realize that its copy is messed up) and installing it with dpkg -i. mozilla-browser 0.9.8-1 installed fine on my systems, and works nicely, so I don't think the official repository's copy is messed up. If you can't get a good copy from the Debian mirror you use, try going to another. Craig
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