At 09:43 AM 12/16/2003 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote: [...]
Can anyone explain what might have happened? BTW, "which mozilla" returns /usr/bin/mozilla, and checking "ls -al /usr/bin/mozilla" shows that it is a link to "/etc/alternatives/mozilla". "/usr/bin/MozillaFirebird" is not a link; it appears to be the executable binary, or the launch script for it.
I'm cautious about altering the link for /usr/bin/mozilla, as I assume it is a way for Debian to find the binary... but then the link doesn't do what it's designed to do!
Are you sure? /etc/alternatives/mozilla will itself be a link to something, to whatever real app is supposed to be running as "mozilla". This is a standard bit of Debianish stuff ... if you look in /etc/alternatives, you should find you have links for any number of apps that come in many versions, including such basics (on my system, anyway) as vi, editor, awk, and telnet. You need to see what the /etc/alternatives/mozilla symlink points to in order to figure out what is going on with your system. It might well point back to "/usr/bin/MozillaFirebird", for example.
As to your general problems ... please do recall that Sid is currently the Unstable version of Debian. It gets weird from time to time, though the weirdness is usually transitory ("dpkg-reconfigure" is one good response to this; so is waiting an hour and doing an apt-get update/upgrade).
Also, Sid changes often enough that saying you installed the "latest" of anything is no help ... you really should report a package version, unless (a) you literally installed just before you sent the message and (b) you hope for help only from someone who also installed just before reading the message.
Since "mozilla" is a wrapper package that installs other packages as dependencies (works the same way as the kernel packae James was asking about earlier today), you may just have hit some sort of transient mismatch among the dependencies.
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