[Bug 237518] Re: xulrunner-1.9 accompanying Firefox 3.0RC2 cannot be installed: dependency problems

[Bruce Miller]

Alexander, I have no wish to indulge in a long argument, but I would
urge you not to turn aside comments and reports because they come in
from strangers.

I bought my first computer in 1982: an Osborne 1A with CP/M 2.2. I have
years of experience and comfort at a command line. I am not a developer
and definitely do not "do code"; on the other hand, I like to run the
absolute latest versions and have the experience to break betas more
thoroughly than most beta testers and lots of tolerance for and
experience with the resulting breakage.

But I felt obliged to report this particular problem, because I had gone
as far as I was comfortable with "sudo dpkg -i force-<foo>", but could
not install one of the "rc" packages that I was trying to test without
risking more generalized system breakage than made sense.

BTW, this evening I brought in the latest build of xulrunner-1.9
(1.9~rc2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~fta5~hardy) and am pleased to report that it
upgraded without conflict or any other incident (except for a post-
install glitch in evolution which depends on yelp which depends on
xulrunner-1.9, but that is far too remote from what we are discussing
:-) ).

Thanks for your comments

Bruce

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xulrunner-1.9 accompanying Firefox 3.0RC2 cannot be installed: dependency problems
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