Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back
On 25/11/11 08:21, Rob Hurle wrote:
> Hi Andrew and Brad,
>
> On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500
>> Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Andrew,
>>
>>> You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the
>>> dependencies to work, I think.
>>
>> Dunno about Rob, but I'd already done that. Trying to upgrade Iceweasel
>> fails due to the fact xulrunner isn't going to be installed (from the
>> report via synaptic). Okay, I'll do that by hand. Select xulrunner for
>> upgrade to v8 (from backports) which also indicates libmozjs8d will be
>> installed. Click okay, and xulrunner is then listed as broken package.
>> So, a no go on the upgrade. :-(
>
> Yes, I'd already done that. My experience is the same as Brad's - no
> go on the upgrade because of xulrunner.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob Hurle
Problem seems to be your mirror (perhaps an upgrade is in progress) -
only Sid seems to have the required version available.
I just upgraded a machine using a local cache:-
root@t22:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
iceweasel
The following packages will be upgraded:
tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/630 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 81857 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tzdata 2011m-0squeeze1 (using
.../tzdata_2011n-0squeeze1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tzdata ...
Setting up tzdata (2011n-0squeeze1) ...
Current default time zone: 'Australia/Canberra'
Local time is now: Fri Nov 25 09:23:26 EST 2011.
Universal Time is now: Thu Nov 24 22:23:26 UTC 2011.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
root@t22:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade | more
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmozjs8d xulrunner-8.0
The following packages will be upgraded:
iceweasel
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst libmozjs8d (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
Inst xulrunner-8.0 (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
Inst iceweasel [7.0.1-4~bpo60+1] (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
Conf libmozjs8d (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
Conf xulrunner-8.0 (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
Conf iceweasel (8.0-3~bpo60+1 work [i386])
root@t22:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmozjs8d xulrunner-8.0
The following packages will be upgraded:
iceweasel
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 24.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://work/mozilla.debian.net/
squeeze-backports/iceweasel-release libmozjs8d i386 8.0-3~bpo60+1 [1,396 kB]
Get:2 http://work/mozilla.debian.net/
squeeze-backports/iceweasel-release xulrunner-8.0 i386 8.0-3~bpo60+1
[10.7 MB]
Get:3 http://work/mozilla.debian.net/
squeeze-backports/iceweasel-release iceweasel i386 8.0-3~bpo60+1 [1,647 kB]
Fetched 13.7 MB in 1s (8,938 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
Selecting previously deselected package libmozjs8d.
(Reading database ... 81857 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmozjs8d (from .../libmozjs8d_8.0-3~bpo60+1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package xulrunner-8.0.
Unpacking xulrunner-8.0 (from .../xulrunner-8.0_8.0-3~bpo60+1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace iceweasel 7.0.1-4~bpo60+1 (using
.../iceweasel_8.0-3~bpo60+1_i386.deb) ...
Leaving 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by
iceweasel'
Unpacking replacement iceweasel ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up libmozjs8d (8.0-3~bpo60+1) ...
Setting up xulrunner-8.0 (8.0-3~bpo60+1) ...
Setting up iceweasel (8.0-3~bpo60+1) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB
Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB
====/etc/apt/preferences (relevant lines)========================
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian Mozilla
Team,a=squeeze-backports,n=squeeze-backports,l=
Debian Mozilla Team,c=iceweasel-release
Pin-Priority: 800
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=squeeze-updates,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 600
====/etc/apt/sources.list (relevant lines)===================
deb http://work:3142/ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/ squeeze main
non-free contrib
deb http://work:3142/ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/debian/ squeeze-updates
main contrib non-free
deb http://work:3142/security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
non-free
deb http://work:3142/mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release
NOTE: ignore the "work:3142" cache.
Cheers
--
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