Comment 21 for bug 57161

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:12:10AM -0000, ortron wrote:
> I'm glad to see someone has posted this, and quite a while ago at that.
> It's *still* not fixed; I'm running feisty, and here is the story:
>
> I wanted to install pidgin, the chat software previously known as gaim.
> Well, it's not in the repositories, go figure, so I compile it from
> source... no good, I didn't have SSL. Gee, shoulda looked at the
> ./configure output :)
>
> OK, so I apt-get installed both libnspr4-dev and libnss3-dev. Both of
> these were a problem, because to do so it uninstalled firefox! How
> great is that? Again, I didn't look carefully, since I just assumed I
> wouldn't have any issues - all I did was install two dev versions of
> libs I already had.
>
> Anyway, when I went to reinstall firefox, the conflict was clear:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> firefox libnspr4 libnss3
>
> I'm not good enough to fix these things ubuntu-wide, but maybe someone
> that is could just make firefox depend on either these libs *or* their
> -dev versions? I would imagine that the -dev would do the same stuff
> and more, and this shouldn't be a huge issue.
>

You are on gutsy, right?

if your firefox is the latest then you won't get this problem. Try to
dist-upgrade first. Then install libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev.

 - Alexander