The error message to sudo apt-get remove firefox in the terminal
was:alexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $ sudo apt-get remove firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package firefox is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
alexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $ The trouble to sudo aptitude remove firefox
was:alexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $ sudo aptitude remove firefox
[sudo] password for alexandru:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
dbus-x11 hal-info linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev
linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic
xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-intel
The following packages have been kept back:
base-files dbus hal libdbus-1-3 libhal-storage1 libhal1 linux-generic
linux-headers-generic util-linux-locales xorg xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-nsc
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
alexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $
Firefox is installed and cannot remove it. I switched to opera in 3 minutes. I
could not install Iceweasel, LOLalexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $ sudo aptitude
install iceweasel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No candidate version found for iceweasel
No candidate version found for iceweasel
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
dbus-x11 hal-info linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev
linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-generic
xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-intel
The following packages have been kept back:
base-files dbus hal libdbus-1-3 libhal-storage1 libhal1 linux-generic
linux-headers-generic util-linux-locales xorg xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-nsc
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
alexandru@alexandru-desktop ~ $