On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:53:13 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Today, on Wheezy, I got a notification from apper that an update was > available (as I fairly often get). > > It was for firefox-esr, and, when I went to allow the update, I got a > notice that libjsonpp0 (not sure the blurb included the pp0) also > needed to be updated. > > For the first time (in probably 2+ years of using Wheezy, maybe much > longer) (and subject to the vagaries of my selective and failing > memory), the update failed. A portion of the dpkg log is shown below. > > From the log, it seems some things are half installed. > > I have three questions: > > * is my machine in trouble--I mean, if I shut down Firefox and try > to restart it, will I have a problem? > > * what is the best way to resolve the issue--perhaps wait a few > days, don't (intentionally) shut down Firefox, and hope that a new > update becomes available in a few days? > > * I guess I should also ask: should I report this somewhere? > > <exerpt from the dpkg log--previous entry is from days earlier> > [snip]
On my Wheezy system, I got the notification after apt-get update that firefox-esr was being "held back." So, I didn't do an apt-get upgrade, but dist-upgrade instead. And the new firefox as well as libjs-whatever were installed. And all is well. B