[solved] Iceweasel updates

[rhowaldt]

hello my friends,

as some of you might've read somewhere i recently did a full dist-upgrade, the first in many months, simply because i wanted to upgrade my Iceweasel because Soundcloud keeps bitching that the version is too old. However, after the upgrade my Iceweasel doesn't seem changed at all, or at least i don't see anything different.

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[16:15:51]$ apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 10.0.12esr-1
  Candidate: 31.1.0esr-1
  Version table:
     31.1.0esr-1 0
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 10.0.12esr-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

if somebody could tell me how to upgrade this bitch, i'd be happy. if you need more info let me know.

[machinebacon]

Hi rhosey,

usually a reinstall would upgrade the package:

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall iceweasel

If it still doesn't rock, purge the old one first:

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sudo apt-get autoremove --purge iceweasel

and then get the new one

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install iceweasel

If it still doesn't want to, try chosing unstable explicitly:

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sudo apt-get install -t unstable iceweasel

This is only useful when you have mixed repos (unstable plus experimental, e.g.)

Explanation: probably last time when you did the monster upgrade, it got stuck at some python or perl package, didn't finish the installation of remaining packages in the cache, and you didn't install anything else/new afterwards, so that it didn't even tell you to use --fix-missing (option '-f') to fix this.

[rhowaldt]

wow, so it was that simple huh. i just did

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sudo apt-get install -t unstable iceweasel

and that upgraded it. running, what, version 31 or something now :)

thanks Julesy!

[ivanovnegro]

Mark it, mark it solved Rhow. :) I was reading it in vain. :P

[rhowaldt]

^ youre right, done :)

[machinebacon]

you forgot to close it in rage :D

kidding :)

[rhowaldt]

^ :D