I just did an upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic and for some reason was having a problem with xulrunner-1.9 (why was this even installed on my server in the first place?). Anyway, I couldn't uninstall it using aptitude or apt-get.. and google didn't really help me out. Fortunately I remembered a post I did on my old blog related to lighttpd and that technique helped again here.First, here's the error I was getting when trying to remove xulrunner-1.9:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xulrunner-1.9
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 26.9MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 45200 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xulrunner-1.9 ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for xulrunner.
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for xulrunner.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9 (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/xulrunner-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libplds4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
xulrunner-1.9
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ugly! The solution is to head over to /var/lib/dpkg/info and find the package in question. There should be a file with .prerm at the end of it. In the case of xulrunner-1.9 the file is called xulrunner-1.9.prerm. Edit the file and change it's contents so it just says:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
After that the standard command will work:
sudo apt-get remove xulrunner-1.9
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Maybe this is the root of my problems with firefox. I can't open a new window anymore, nor do some addons work properly. I've been using Chrome, liking it more and more, but I will see if this helps..
No change. I installed firefox 3.5 on Jaunty, then it has been trouble since upgrading to Karmic. I have xulrunner-1.9.1 and xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support installed. I can do without a few trinket addons, but it hurts a little that Ctrl-N is broken.
xulrunner is related to firefox somehow? Do you know how to fix a broken Ctrl-N in firefox?
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