Bug#457114: Iceape browser will not install due to configuration script error

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:30:14PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> Package: iceape-browser
> Version 1.1.7-1_i386.deb
> 
> Heres a transcipt of an attempt of apt-get to configure the iceape
> browser.  I used apt-get's install command and got:
> 
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> iceape is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 439 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up iceape-browser (1.1.7-1) ...
> Updating iceape chrome registry...mv: cannot stat `\033[00m\033[00mchrome.rdf\033[00m': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing iceape-browser (--configure):
> _________________________________________________________________________
> What's wrong is obvious.  the file name mchome.rdf is garbled because
> it was obtained by the "ls" command which adds on escape sequences
> since I've set it to display color-coded files names by putting
>        ls () { command ls --color $* ; }
> in my /etc/profile.  The \033 ... are escape sequences for color.  So
> the fix is to use 'command ls' instead of just 'ls'.  This will just
> show the file name without the color escapes (\033 is the escape
> character).

Another workaround for you would be to use ls --color=auto, which will
enable color only in appropriate cases, and disable in this one.

Mike