Did you have an older version of Firefox installed? If yes can you please uninstall it? If you are comfortable with Synaptic package manager use that. Please do note that if you do use Synaptic package manager then use the option, "mark for complete removal" before uninstallation. If you do not have Synaptic then run a apt purge and autoremove as given below. The order is important, please do not do autoremove prior to purge.
Thank you both. I have tried this method. Upon apt updating, i can see:what would you do to get rid of these?Unpacking firefox-esr (128.0esr~build2) over (115.13.0esr-1~deb11u1) ...
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons/default': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome/icons': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser/chrome': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr/browser': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/firefox-esr': Directory not empty
dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/etc/firefox-esr': Directory not empty
Setting up firefox (128.0.2~build1) ...
Code:
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox-esr$ sudo apt-get remove --purge firefox$ sudo apt-get autoremoveCode:
$ sudo rm -iv /usr/share/firefox-esr/Then go and install Firefox from the Mozilla's repository as it is mentioned in Install Firefox .deb package for Debian-based distributions.
Statistics: Posted by DebianFox — 2024-07-25 10:25 — Replies 4 — Views 149