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FS#3204 - Firefox 1.0.6 needs another dependency
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DetailsI installed firefox 1.0.6 from the testing repo, ran the program, and got an error about requiring libpangocairo. I then installed cairo, ran firefox, and still had the problem. Then I installed pango (or upgraded the version that I had), and firefox then worked.
Hence, it seems that the firefox 1.0.6 package needs another dependency: pango. |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 22:42 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed with 1.0.7, which depends on gtk>=2.8.0 now
Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 22:42 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed with 1.0.7, which depends on gtk>=2.8.0 now
"Firefox 1.0.6 is in testing because of a reason: it is compiled against other programs in testing."
First, I hope that my filing a bug was not meant to be taken as a complaint, as your quoted response implies. Indeed, I believe firefox is in testing as a signal for people like me, who have problems installing it, should mention it. I posted my problem in the forums, where I was told to submit it is a bug. If this is not the proper protocol, I apologize. Since it was in "testing", I figured I, as a tester, should report my results. In either case, I only meant to be helpful for the package maintainers, and did not mean to sound as a whining brat.
"I guess you have a pretty fucked up firefox at this moment, since you didn't upgrade all libs firefox is depending on."
Actually, firefox works fine on my machine. As I mentioned in my report, I installed pango and it worked fine. Now, I am a little curious as to the implications of you saying, "since you didn't upgrade all libs firefox is depending on." The process I went through was to upgrade firefox using pacman, at which point I was prompted only to upgrade the nspr package, none others. Pacman did not prompt me to upgrade pango or any other package; I certainly did not consciously choose not to upgrade those packages. My understanding of pacman is that whenever a package (like firefox) depends on a version of another package that is not currently installed (like pango), it would add it as a dependency and would automatically list it as other packages that need to be installed (the way it did with the nspr package). This did not happen, so I figured something needs tweaking to ensure that when this version of firefox is installed, it checks for things like the proper version of pango, etc.
I hope this helps.
This firefox has been compiled against gtk2 2.8.x, which requires pango, which requires cairo etc etc etc...