Re: iceweasel upgrade being held back

[Jeff Bauer <jwbauer@charter.net>]

On 02/11/2014 09:50 AM, Reco wrote:
>   Hi.
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:51:55AM -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:
> > On an existing Wheezy installation, performed "apt-get update", then
> > "apt-get upgrade" - but iceweasel is being "held back". Tried
> > "apt-get -f install" thinking it may be a dependency issue, but
> > still being held back.
> Starting today [1], wheezy's iceweasel version was increased to
> 24.3.0esr-1~deb7u1, to match current ESR of Mozilla's firefox.
> Side effect of this bump is that iceweasel started to depend on
> xulrunner-24.0 package, instead of original xulrunner-10.0 (or
> xulrunner-17.0, which was previous ESR).
>
> 'apt-get update' is just doing what it is told to do - upgrade installed
> packages, but don't install new packages or remove old ones.
>
> To upgrade iceweasel, you'll need to:
>
> 1) Invoke 'apt-get dist-upgrade', to allow apt to install all new
> dependencies.
>
> 2) Optionally, invoke 'apt-get autoremove --purge', to remove old
> xulrunner.
>
> [1] http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Feb/35
>
> Reco
Thanks very much Reco. "apt-get dist-upgrade" did the trick! Appreciate 
your explanation re: xulrunner, too.

Jeff

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