libgnome2-perl should be made dependency of synaptic

[Maximilian Gerlach]

As mentioned in the summary, libgnome2-perl should be made dependency of
synaptic because it wants it when clicking on 'in terminal' (or something like
that -> german translation...) when installing software.

[Lucas Goss (lgoss007-gmail)]

To add to this, when upgrading today the installation paused when it was almost
finished. I had to open the console to see that there was a console dialog to
get the screen resolutions configured (the same dialog when setting up Ubuntu).
I checked the status after installation and found this:

setting up popularity-contest (1.2ubuntu3) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (unable to load Gnome -- is libgnome2-perl installed?)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog

The same debconf message also appeared for these two:

setting up xserver-common (6.8.1-1ubuntu16) ...
setting up xserver-xorg (6.8.1-1ubuntu16) ...

Awe, I missed the popularity contest dialog... haha. Well I only had one dialog
(for the screen resolution), that might have been right. But if it can't find
libgnome2-perl then why isn't it installed beforehand?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

There is a discussion about this on the ubuntu-devel mailing list now. See
http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-February/004370.html

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

*** Bug 10253 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Discussion on IRC and the mailinglist indicate that we will install
libgnome2-perl by default for the desktop install. This will make this problem
go away.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

*** Bug 13612 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[reh4c (gene-hoffler)]

I also get this error "Is libgnome2-perl installed?" when using Synaptic to update Ubuntu on my
laptop. I agree that this package and the other dependencies should become part of the basic/initial
installation. Thanks.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Synaptic works without libgnome2-perl that's why it's "only" a Recommend (not a
depend) of synaptic. Most users will still want to have it by default that why
it's now a dependency of the ubuntu-desktop package that is installed by default
on all machines. This solves the problem in a nice way. Feel free to reopen this
bug if you disagree.

[Björn Felten (bjorn-felten)]

Two years later I still get this error (edgy), wasn´t it supposed to be fixed?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

It is fixed. If you install an ubuntu-desktop you will get all packages needed.

If you want to not only install dependencies, but also recommended software that enhances your primary software, choose to install recommends too.

Cheers,

Sebastian

[Björn Felten (bjorn-felten)]

I *have* an ubuntu-desktop (6.10) installed, and it is *not* fixed there.

I had to manually install libgnome2-perl (it wasn't even enough to install just libgnome2), so it seems there still are some depencies that are not set up properly.

After I installed libgnome2-perl everything worked just fine, I get all the proper alerts popping up whenever called for.