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Cannot install Firefox-Esr on my Kali Linux Nethunter distro.

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Running Kali Linux Nethunter 3.4 ARMHF kernel on my Oneplus One phone. I do not have any browser installed. Trying to install from the terminal. Get error message broken package (see below). Can this be corrected by me, or Is there a stable ARMHF firefox version for Kali Linux Nethunter available. Thanks TC. PS: Tried installing Iceweasel but get same error, depends on firefox-esr.

Install Error Message: @kali:~# apt-get install firefox-esr Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

firefox-esr : Depends: libhunspell-1.3-0 but it is not installable
              Depends: libjsoncpp0 but it is not installable

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Running Kali Linux Nethunter 3.4 ARMHF kernel on my Oneplus One phone. I do not have any browser installed. Trying to install from the terminal. Get error message broken package (see below). Can this be corrected by me, or Is there a stable ARMHF firefox version for Kali Linux Nethunter available. Thanks TC. PS: Tried installing Iceweasel but get same error, depends on firefox-esr. Install Error Message: @kali:~# apt-get install firefox-esr Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: firefox-esr : Depends: libhunspell-1.3-0 but it is not installable Depends: libjsoncpp0 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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I would advise against using Kali for personal use, you have broken packages on your system, which means you cannot install anything new, until you fix those broken packages.

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This is the OP. Couldn't fix firefox libhunspell-1.3.0, libjsoncpp0 broken packages. Ended up getting Firefox-Esr v52 from Debian jessie. DiD. 1. Added deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ 2. $ apt-get update 3. $ apt-get install firefox-esr

tomx.