Error when installing icedtea-gcjwebplugin from Firefox - Intrepid

[Aaron]

As per forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=967153

When I use Firefox to view a site that uses java. Firefox gives me an
option to install 'icedtea-gcjwebplugin'. The installation stops with an
error to do with unresolved dependencies.

The same thing happens in Synaptic.

Another user is also currently having this issue and posted the following information when trying to install the plug-in using apt-get:
$ sudo apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  icedtea-gcjwebplugin: Depends: icedtea6-plugin but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Finally bug 283950 also states this issue but I was advised to raise a new bug report instead of continuing with 283950.

Please see the attached screen prints.

[Aaron (soulblade)]

This is happening on the following version of Ubuntu:

$ uname -a
Linux one 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 04:12:22 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

the problem is addressed in ubufox bug 291417

[Aaron (soulblade)]

Bug 291417 is talking about the descriptions that firefox presents.

Bug 292432 is about installing the software and the system comes up with a dependency* error .

'icedtea-gcjwebplugin' cannon physically be installed on intrepid.