Trouble installing iceweasel- dpkg-divert: Cannot divert directories

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 07:23:59PM -0700, keitho at strucktower.com wrote:
> 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)

iceweasel is only diverting /usr/bin/firefox. I wouldn't expect that to
normally be a directory. Is it one on your system?

Mike