Package firefox-gnome-support missing from Netbook Remix (UNR)

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs]

In the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the package firefox-gnome-support is missing, which prevents associated applications from opening when downloading files such as .deb

This was discovered when trying to install the UbuntuOne application following the instructions at ubuntuone.com

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please dont set firefox as a Ubuntu task, it refers to 2.0 and that is well past EOLS

Can you please post the following command:
apt-cache policy firefox-gnomesupport firefox-3.0-gnome-support

please type it as i did.

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy)]

I think you meant firefox-gnome-support :)

firefox-gnome-support:
  Installed: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
firefox-3.0-gnome-support:
  Installed: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

Just to advise you, I did install these packages as I needed it to get UbuntuOne to work properly. Sorry. I've got another machine at home which has an unmodified version of the UNR installed.

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy)]

From the machine which isn't updated

firefox-gnome-support:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
firefox-3.0-gnome-support:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Sorry yes i did mean that. It was a typo

What happens when you try to install it? It is in repos as you can see by the output you gave.
Honestly this is a apt bug not a firefox bug Changing task

[Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs (jontheniceguy)]

To be honest, I don't even think it's a bug in apt or firefox, I think it's instead maybe an issue with the UNR image itself? Can it be marked as a bug to ensure it's not like this in the next release of UNR?

I'm not really particularly au fait with DEB packages, or APT processes, but is it possible to say "If Gnome and Firefox are installed, one also requires firefox-gnome-support"? I'm thinking now of how to fix the machines already deployed - can the Firefox package have an extra tag put in it? Is there an UNR package which has been used like the ubuntu-desktop package, and if so, can that have this package as an extra dependancy (if that's the right place to put it?)

Thanks for your help thus far John.

[Olie (a-launchpad-alkilde-dk)]

I experienced the same problem when installing ubuntuone on UNR. Firefox does not know how to handle .deb files in UNR. This problem does not exist in "standard" ubuntu.

The following procedure works for UNR:
1: Download the ubuntuone-jaunty-ppa.deb from the install page.
2: Open a terminal, cd to the directory with the .deb file and do the following:
  a: sudo dpkg -i ubuntuone-jaunty-ppa.deb
  b: sudo aptitude update
  c: sudo aptitude install ubuntuone-client-gnome

This should give you the ubuntuone client in the "Internet" group.

[Vish (vish)]

This is no longer an issue in the Latest Ubuntu-netbook [maverick]
ubuntu-netbook now recommends package firefox-gnome-support and package firefox-gnome-support is installed by default.

Marking bug as fixed.