[Bug 57161] Re: Impossible to install libsmjs-dev with firefox present

[ortron]

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.

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Impossible to install libsmjs-dev with firefox present
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57161
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