Comments on: Install Iceweasel Web Browser in Debian and Ubuntu

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:12:14 +0000

Installed nice in Ubuntu 9.10 after removing hunspell-en-us. Thanks.

By: Pavan

Pavan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:51:27 +0000

Hey, I’m a an ubuntu 11.04 users , I n the second step of installation “sudo dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb”
I got following error :
dpkg: error processing iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

By: withanh

withanh — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:25:52 +0000

Duh! Just noticed that it says hunspell-en-ca, guess I’d better remove that :~)

By: withanh

withanh — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:24:15 +0000

I’m having the same issue and removing hunspell-en-us doesn’t help. I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (machine name redacted)

root@computername:/tmp# apt-get remove hunspell-en-us
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-21
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
hunspell-en-us language-support-en language-support-writing-en
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 860kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 155195 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing language-support-en …
Removing language-support-writing-en …
Removing hunspell-en-us …
Processing triggers for python-gmenu …
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache…
Processing triggers for python-support …
root@computername:/tmp# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-headers-2.6.32-21 linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
After this operation, 85.3MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 155178 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic …
Removing linux-headers-2.6.32-21 …
root@computername:/tmp# dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb
dpkg: regarding iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb containing iceweasel:
hunspell-en-ca conflicts with iceweasel (<< 2.0.0.3-2)
iceweasel (version 1.5.0.8pre-2) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing iceweasel
Errors were encountered while processing:
iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb
root@computername:/tmp#

By: jobin

jobin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:17:35 +0000

thanks
its working well

By: iPhier

iPhier — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:36:59 +0000

you can remove hunspell-en-us using
sudo apt-get remove hunspell-en-us
sudo apt-get autoremove

By: Anahita

Anahita — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:07:01 +0000

After the command “sudo dpkg -i iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb”, it give me this error:

dpkg: regarding iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb containing iceweasel:
hunspell-en-us conflicts with iceweasel (<< 2.0.0.3-2)
iceweasel (version 1.5.0.8pre-2) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing iceweasel
Errors were encountered while processing:
iceweasel_1.5.0.8pre-2.deb

Could you please tell me what I could do?

By: Robert Pawlowicz

Robert Pawlowicz — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:49:31 +0000

I’m using Debian Etch on all the machines in an office and we’ve just been locked out of all the on-line banking facilities because Iceweasel is apparently not a recognised web-browser. Doh! Extremely inconvenient…

By: Admin

Admin — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:30:24 +0000

try to run the following command

#apt-get -f install

By: mike fake

mike fake — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:04:02 +0000

i have had a lot of problems with the dependency stuff, i’m using debian sarge.