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Title: Firefox Update Error
Post by: mkulgh1969 on July 11, 2019, 09:43:47 PM
While trying to update Firefox throug Linux Lite Update tool I received the following error.

============ Log ===========

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firefox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 49.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,484 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 firefox amd64 68.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 [49.3 MB]
Fetched 49.3 MB in 38s (1,279 kB/s)
Setting up base-files (9.4ubuntu4.9) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: 131: /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: Automatically: not found
dpkg: error processing package base-files (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-files
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Title: Re: Firefox Update Error
Post by: egosum on July 12, 2019, 05:41:26 AM
...same problem, waiting for somebody's help.
Title: Re: Firefox Update Error
Post by: torreydale on July 12, 2019, 01:52:12 PM
From a terminal, consider running the following:

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sudo dpkg --configure -a
And then try running Install Updates again.
Title: Re: Firefox Update Error
Post by: egosum on July 12, 2019, 04:07:17 PM
...terminal:
Setting up base-files (9.4ubuntu4.9) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: 131: /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-files.postinst: Automatically: not found
dpkg: error processing package base-files (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-files
.......Restart and it is OK! Thanks!
Title: Re: Firefox Update Error
Post by: torreydale on July 12, 2019, 06:25:59 PM
@egosum ,
Please mark this thread as solved.
Title: Re: Firefox Update Error
Post by: egosum on July 13, 2019, 03:06:37 AM
...sorry, torreydale, it's not my thread. it's posted by mkulgh1969.