Re: [tlug] Firefox dead, can't reinstall

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Brian,


On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Brian Chandler <brian@example.com> wrote:
> On a neighbouring computer, Firefox has sort of died, so I tried
> reinstalling it. The synaptic package manager thingy said "[something]
> Cannot be authenticated", and when I persisted, just failed anyway. I
> found some help on a forum: tried apt-get update, which listed masses of
> locations, quite a few "can't access", then apt-get install firefox, but
> in the end this all failed. The problem seems to be that it cannot
> access security.ubuntu.com.
>
> On this computer, that domain redirects to somethingelse.ubuntu. And
> this is what I get from apt...
>
> brian@Bach ~ $ sudo apt-get update
> [sudo] password for brian:
> Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com sarah InRelease


I don't know much about Linux Mint, so I'm not sure if this is
relevant.  But at least for Ubuntu, there are web sites such as this:

https://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

(NB:  This isn't an official Canonical web site, AFAIK)

which can help you regenerate the sources.list file that you would put
in /etc/apt/ (do back up your old one).  You can try regenerating a
new one and then doing an "sudo apt-get update" to see if you can
access the repository.  Maybe even try various repositories.

As Curt pointed out, this doesn't seem to be a Firefox problem at all
but a problem with the packaging system.  But since I don't know Linux
Mint, I don't know how sources.list differs from Ubuntu's (which is
what the above link is for).

Ray