[conspire] upgrade and grub

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

> Yes, many times searching for the exact string of a message will find
> useful info, but not always.

You'll notice I didn't put the error string portion of my search
incantation into quotation marks, so I deliberately allowed fuzzy
matches.  (There are of course other times when you really need to say
'No, only exactly this, verbatim.')

> Anyway this sequence did work:
> apt-get remove firefox-esr
> apt-get update
> apt-get install firefox-esr
> There are doubtless other ways that might also have worked.  But this
> being linux, if anything can be done, there are probably a lot of
> possible way.
> 
> Now I have 52.8.1.   

Huh.  {scratches head}

You _had_ done 'apt-get update' before, in the recent past, since your
recent revision of sources.list, right?  I think you said so.

If so, it's a genuine head-scratcher why it was necessary to first
remove the package, then refresh the package catalogues (again,
redundantly), then install the same package -- to get a modern version.

But sure, take the victory.  ;->