Software-center opens wrong browser when the Programmer's website is clicked on the aplication view
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Although I'm not a programmer I did a little research on the bug.
The software-center uses the python module webbrowser to open the url which should always open the correct browser, but in my system it open Chromium instead of Firefox.
checked with:
gconftool --get /desktop/
firefox %s
So I opened a python console and tested the webbrowser.
Browsing through the webbrowser module's source code found the in gnome environments it tries to use the gnome-open command which is not available in Precise Pangolin. When installed the needed packages everything works as expected.
Thus I'm almost sure that the problem isn't in the Software Center but I've reached the limit of my skills to track down this small bug and decided to report it here where I first detected it.
Hope that my research can help someone to fix the bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.11
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 7 21:29:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=pt_PT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-02 (5 days ago)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
assignee: | Gary Lasker (gary-lasker) → nobody |
Hello Nuno! You may not describe yourself as a programmer, but I must say that you did a fine job of investigating and providing info for this bug.
Based on the info you provided, I think we can take it from here and investigate the underlying issue and the best way to fix this for software-center.
You can follow this report for updates, etc.
Thanks again!