On 25/11/11 08:21, Rob Hurle wrote: > Hi Andrew and Brad, > > On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 >> Andrew Reid <rei...@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. 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