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lsolano is offline lsolano
2010-10-08 , 14:43
Posts: 235 | Thanked: 163 times | Joined on Dec 2008 @ Costa Rica
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Hi:

I tried fennec once, and today I'd like to test firefox beta1.

I uninstalled firefox and when trying to install the new beta, I got a message about fennec already installed.

That package does not appear in the app manager, however I can see it if I list the installed packaged in console:
Code:
/home/user # dpkg -l fennec
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
rc  fennec         1.1            Web browser built by the Mozilla community
/home/user #
Now if I try to uninstall it, I get:
Code:
/home/user # apt-get purge fennec
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package fennec is not installed, so not removed
Thanks in advance for any help.
 
Wikiwide is offline Wikiwide
2010-10-08 , 22:36
Posts: 1,994 | Thanked: 3,342 times | Joined on Jun 2010 @ N900: Battery low. N950: torx 4 re-used once and fine; SIM port torn apart
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Quick reply...
Download deb to N900 from, for example,
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/rel.../binary-armel/
or
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/rep.../binary-armel/


Then open the folder in File Manager and open the deb (with App Manager). If it refuses to install the deb, read the log: what kind of problem is here?

You could also try (as root) the command
dpkg -i /path/file.deb




About the contradiction between "dpkg -l fennec" and "apt-get purge fennec": dpkg has one list of packages, apt-get has another. You can perfectly well see with dpkg that all the applications, which you have uninstalled someday, have left behind their config files, settings, version, etc. Don't worry about it; it seems to be the norm.

Best wishes.
 
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