<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3083"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">Yes, many times searching for the exact string of a message will find useful info, but not always.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3124"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3154"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">Anyway this sequence did work:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3216"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">apt-get remove firefox-esr</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3153"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">apt-get update</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3139"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">apt-get install firefox-esr</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3140"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3227"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">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.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3269"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3207"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">Now I have 52.8.1. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3270"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3096">I have also cleaned up sources.list, however that was not the cause of the original question.<br></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3088"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3093" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3092"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3091"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3090"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3089" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> conspire@linuxmafia.com <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3285"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3284">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 22, 2018 10:04 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] upgrade and grub<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1529737242002_3126"><br>Quoting Paul Zander (<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> For the record, I did transcribe the wording from the dialog box as<br clear="none">> carefully as I could. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Your transcription was really close, and that was not a problem. E.g.,<br clear="none">it brought up the Ubuntu-and-EC2 related pages via a very close match to<br clear="none">the error text. In this case, the search strategy didn't strike gold<br clear="none">because, I would speculate, there just wasn't any to strike. (I<br clear="none">mentioned that strategy for use in other scenarios where one has better<br clear="none">luck.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> There remains a small question about why some other packages are not<br clear="none">> at exactly the same version as I found searching at:<br clear="none">> https://packages.debian.org/.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you mean the installed versions are older than the current repo<br clear="none">versions in Stable, and you've recently done the apt-get dance (which I<br clear="none">recall you now have), then make very sure there hasn't been a small<br clear="none">change to the package name (as with 'firefox' v. 'firefox-esr'). Once<br clear="none">you're sure you aren't missing a small name change, just do<br clear="none"><br clear="none">apt-get install packagename<br clear="none"><br clear="none">...where 'packagename' is what's in the repo. In fact, this shouldn't<br clear="none">be necessary, but you could do<br clear="none"><br clear="none">apt-get --reinstall install packagename<br clear="none"><br clear="none">...to force it a bit.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you mean that the installed versions are more recent than the current<br clear="none">repo versions in Stable, that would seem likely to be a long-term<br clear="none">consequence of your having been tracking Testing. As I've said, Debian<br clear="none">doesn't really support downgrading very well. Such situations can be<br clear="none">fixed, but some work will inevitably be required.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">BTW, p.d.o. is very handy, and I keep lazily using it myself, but<br clear="none">probably we'd both be better off training our fingers to instead use<br clear="none">'apt-cache search' in most cases.<div class="yqt9541719404" id="yqtfd81232"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>