firefox install fails, required package firefox-branding tries to overwrite /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

[Sundberg Pauli]

Binary package hint: firefox

Fresh install from 11.04 (natty) and i tried to install firefox.

root@sundberg-hp1104:/home/sundberg# apt-get install firefox
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firefox is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 firefox : Depends: firefox-branding or
                    abrowser-branding
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@sundberg-hp1104:/home/sundberg# apt-get install -f firefox-branding
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-branding
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
17 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,254 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,654 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 97571 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-branding (from .../firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop', which is also in package kubuntu-firefox-installer 10.10ubuntu4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-branding_4.0~b7+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an err

[Sundberg Pauli (susundberg)]

Seems like installing 'abrowser-branding' in place solves the issue.

[Sundberg Pauli (susundberg)]

For others, later one can find only 'firefox-install' icon from menu. Drag-and-dropping from dolphin does not work either as it will start same installer.

Modifying ./applications/firefox.desktop the exec parts helps.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 694391, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.