Solving the mint-search-addon 2012.05.11 update error

The update manager is having trouble updating the mint-search-addon package to version 2012.05.11.
The mint-search-addon is a custom search plugin for Firefox and in my view it isn't necessary for the system, and worst of all is having to waste time solving this problem.

The message shown is:

An Error ocurred The following details are provided: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-search-addon_2012.05.11_all.deb: unable to open '/usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions/mint-search-enhancer@linuxmint.com/install.rdf.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

Error message.

Clicking close, another message appears:

Update is complete

Not all changes and updates succeeded. For further details of the failure, please expand the 'Details' panel below.

(Reading database ... 206768 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mint-search-addon 2011.08.15 (using .../mint-search-addon_2012.05.11_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mint-search-addon ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-search-addon_2012.05.11_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions/mint-search-enhancer@linuxmint.com/install.rdf.dpkg-new': No such file or directory configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-search-addon_2012.05.11_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

Second error message.

Solution

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As I said, this package isn't important, so my solution is simply to remove it! 🙂

$ sudo apt-get purge mint-search-addon
$ sudo apt-get update

I hope it helped!