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Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

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On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 10:05:23 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 4/10/21 4:59 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> 
> > ... I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from
> > version 78.6 to version 78.9.
> 
> I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8).
> It looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?).  I use
> apt-get(8).

I don't think that's the problem with interpreting the OP's command,
but rather, their sources.list and what's actually installed, when
they say:

    "my system (mostly Debian testing)"

> Always backup before doing updates; especially kernel upgrades.
> 
> When I want to upgrade, re-install, or install packages, I start with
> 'apt-get update'.
> 
> I would have done 'apt-get upgrade ...' instead of 'apt install ...'.
> I then reboot.

I'm not certain that's wise as it could try to upgrade everything to
testing. That might or might not be desirable—we can't tell because
we don't know the mix of packages.

> If there are packages that have been kept back, I do 'apt-get
> dist-upgrade' and then reboot.
> 
> If I want to re-install a package for whatever reason, I do 'apt-get
> remove ...' or 'apt-get purge ...'.  If I'm suspicious, I reboot.
> Then I do 'apt-get install ...' and reboot.

Cheers,
David.

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upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-10 14:00 +0200
  Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working          firefox Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-04-10 14:30 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-10 14:40 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-11 13:30 +0200
  Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-04-10 19:10 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-10 20:20 +0200
      Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-11 13:40 +0200
        Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2021-04-11 13:50 +0200
          Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-04-11 14:10 +0200
            Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-12 18:20 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-04-10 21:20 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-11 13:40 +0200
  Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working  firefox David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-04-10 20:10 +0200
    Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2021-04-11 13:50 +0200

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