I fear that on the amd64-gnome box my sources list should be amended:
deb http://debian.netcologne.de/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.netcologne.de/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
>
> deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free
>
> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release
>
> deb http://debian.netcologne.de/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main
> contrib non-free
> deb-src http://debian.netcologne.de/debian/ testing-proposed-updates main
> contrib non-free
>
root@tya64:/home/francesco# aptitude update
reports
> W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
> 1397BC53640DB551
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/Release: Unable to find
> expected entry 'iceweasel-release/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release file
> (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
>
thanks for advice
francesco pietra
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 08:17:04AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Here the reply by the developer of Vuescan, who had already let me know
> > that he never heard of iceweasel:
> >
> > This isn’t being started from VueScan code – it’s probably
> > > something in a shared library.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ed Hamrick
> > >
> >
> >
> > so, it seems to be an issue to be resolved within amd64 (Vuescan code
> works
> > perfectly, it is only the updating that failed)
>
> Well I would think something in your gnome settings is doing it.
>
> Did you ever manually answer a question about how to open something and
> select iceweasel that way?
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
