Synaptic and the likes are giving me this error:     You have 1 broken package on your system.I have tried to use the fix broken packages option but Synaptic simply crashes. It seems that Firefox 17.0.1 is the package causing all the issues.So I tried to use sudo apt-get -f install firefoxand received these errors$ sudo apt-get -f install firefoxReading package lists ... DoneBuilding dependency ratioReading state information ... DoneSuggested packages: latex-xft-fontsThe following packages will be upgraded: firefox1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.1 packages not fully installed or removed.Must obtain 0 B/22.4 MB of archives.After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.(Reading database ... 161323 files and directories currently installed.)Preparing to replace firefox 17.0 + build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 (using ... /   firefox_17.0.1 + build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb) ...Unpacking replacement firefox ...dpkg: error processing / var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_17.0.1 + build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb (- unpack):trying to overwrite '/ usr / lib / firefox / extensions that are also present in the package mint-search-addon 2011.08.15Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.Processing triggers for man-db ...Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...Rebuilding / usr / share / applications / bamf.index ...Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...Errors occurred in the treatment of: / Var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_17.0.1 + build1-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.debE: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (1)Next I tried using sudo apt-get install && sudo-apt get update reinstall firefoxsudo apt-get remove --purge firefoxsudo apt-get updateUnfortunately they were all to no avail. I also tried reinstalling synaptic but that too failed. What is wrong?
Broken package system in Linux Mint - Firefox looks like the culprit
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