/$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: firefox-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts libthai0 The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 94 not upgraded. 701 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/9218kB of archives. After unpacking 29.3MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 131368 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox', which is the diverted version of `/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox' Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)