Ubuntu and Firefox again
When doing a regular system update, I got a notice that mozilla-firefox couldn’t be updated. I believe this was since my last dealings with it. The error suggested I do a apt-get dist-upgrade or a Smart-Upgrade in Synaptic. When I took the apt-get approach, apt planned on removing mozilla-firefox-gnome-support, installing firefox, and upgrading mozilla-firefox. I found that the backports repositories were not resolving, which I believe means the servers/mirrors are down. To fix, I just replaced the current backports repository:
deb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiv
erse restricted
with:
deb http://acm.cs.umn.edu/ubp/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted
in the /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Once I made those changes to the sources.list, and after an apt-get update, I was able to rerun apt-get dist-upgrade and everything went through and the problem is fixed.
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