Trouble installing iceweasel- dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories

keitho at strucktower.com keitho at strucktower.com
Thu Aug 25 02:23:59 UTC 2011


Can someone tell me how to get around this or what I am doing wrong?

Here is the error apt-get message:

root at EVE:/etc/apt# apt-get install -t squeeze-backports iceweasel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  xulrunner-1.9.1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  iceweasel xulrunner-1.9.1
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,363 kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main xulrunner-1.9.1
i386 1.9.1.16-9 [7,264 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main iceweasel i386
3.5.16-9 [1,098 kB]
Fetched 8,363 kB in 7s (1,168 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package xulrunner-1.9.1.
(Reading database ... 132649 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xulrunner-1.9.1 (from .../xulrunner-1.9.1_1.9.1.16-9_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking iceweasel (from .../iceweasel_3.5.16-9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories

Use --help for help about querying packages.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/iceweasel_3.5.16-9_i386.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/iceweasel_3.5.16-9_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)





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