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[SLUG] ubuntu firefox broken


Some how during an apt-get upgrade, (see attached) I broken Firefox and
I don't know how to repair what has happened.

Any suggestions?

Craig 


$sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mozilla-firefox mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8856kB of archives.
After unpacking 24.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 80002 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1
(using .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/var/lib/mozilla-firefox/extensions.d/00classic',
which is also in package firefox
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox-gnome-support
1.0.6-1ubuntu1~5.04ubp1
(using .../mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mozilla-firefox-gnome-support ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite
`/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/components/libmozgnome.so', which is also in
package firefox-gnome-support
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox-gnome-support_1.0.7-0ubuntu0.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)