Ubuntu
gnome-app-install package

Not aware of unsupported architectures

Bug #52409 reported by Peter Garrett
18
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

Mac iBook G4 1.2GHz
uname -a: Linux alterego 2.6.15-25-powerpc #1 Wed Jun 14 11:27:00 UTC 2006 ppc GNU/Linux
/etc/issue: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

The latest upgrades offer, for example, the Opera browser in "gnome-app-install". However, on PPC ( iBook G4 1.2Ghz in my case), marking Opera and attempting to install it results in the following sequence:

1. Mark Opera for install
2. Accept the offer to enable the commercai channel, clicking "enable channel"
3. Wait for package information and checking installed and available applications .....
4. GOTO 2 ;-)
5. ..... ???
6. Profit!

Actually we don't ever get to (6), we just get an endless loop, 1-2-3-4-2-3-4-2-3-4......
*cough*

The app just endlessly returns to the "Enable the required third-party channel "dapper-commercial" ? " dialogue.

Adding the line:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

to the /etc/apt/sources.list , and updating, then attempting

sudo apt-get install opera results in

<snip>

Package opera is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

E: Package opera has no installation candidate

I assume this means there is no "Opera" for PPC - but if so, it should not appear in the app-install GUI, and the means for trying to install it should not result in an endless loop as above.

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Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco) wrote :

There's actually a Linux PPC release for Opera 9 but there are no binaries available for Ubuntu yet (in the Opera website that is).

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Peter Garrett (peter-garrett) wrote : Re: [Bug 52409] Re: gnome-app-install does not enable 6.06 LTS commercial (Mac/PPC arch.)

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:54:00 -0000
"Jerome S. Gotangco" <email address hidden> wrote:

> There's actually a Linux PPC release for Opera 9 but there are no
> binaries available for Ubuntu yet (in the Opera website that is).

Ah, so I assume in due course this will cease to be a bug? Any idea when?

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Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco) wrote : Re: [Bug 52409] Re: [Bug 52409] Re: gnome-app-install does not enable 6.06 LTS commercial (Mac/PPC arch.)

I would like to confirm this, but as I have no PPC, we need to have
someone confirm it for us. App-install-data only contains the desktop
file as well as the location on where to grab the binary so I can only
assume for now that an Ubuntu-specific PPC binary is in the works.

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Peter Garrett (peter-garrett) wrote : Re: [Bug 52409] Re: [Bug 52409] Re: [Bug 52409] Re: gnome-app-install does not enable 6.06 LTS commercial (Mac/PPC arch.)

On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:24:06 -0000
"Jerome S. Gotangco" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I would like to confirm this, but as I have no PPC, we need to have
> someone confirm it for us. App-install-data only contains the desktop
> file as well as the location on where to grab the binary so I can only
> assume for now that an Ubuntu-specific PPC binary is in the works.
>

I have just installed the Debian Sid version from planetmirror.com's
ftp site, and so far it is running well on my iBook ( in fact, very
impressively -fast and snappy)

Whether any customisation is required, I don't know. The "shared"
.deb installed without complaint.

The link was:
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/opera/linux/900/final/en/ppc/shared/gcc-2.95/opera_9.0-20060616.3-shared-qt_en_powerpc.deb

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: gnome-app-install does not enable 6.06 LTS commercial (Mac/PPC arch.)

The problem is not related to Opera.

It is a bug in gnome-app-install: we don't have got a supported architectures tag for the applications.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

I fixed this in my local dapper and sebi branch. Michael, would you please merge and upload. Furthermore we need to add a "X-AppInstallArchitectures" tag to the desktop files :)

Changed in gnome-app-install:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)
Changed in gnome-app-install:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The current version in edgy fully supports the architecture field. I upaded the desktop files to have a architecture field where appropriate (where a package is not available on all architectures).

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in gnome-app-install:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Peter Garrett (peter-garrett) wrote : Re: [Bug 52409] Re: Not aware of unsupported architectures

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:33:33 -0000
Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:

> The current version in edgy fully supports the architecture field. I
> upaded the desktop files to have a architecture field where appropriate
> (where a package is not available on all architectures).

That's nice, thank you - but as of the time and date on this comment, the
behaviour is exactly the same on Dapper PPC 6.06 LTS, fully updated.

Given that the Debian Sid PPC version of Opera that I linked appears to
work fine, would it not be possible to just, erm, put it in for dapper as
an update ? Or does it have known issues of which I am unaware? Anyone who
tries to install Opera on PPC currently just gets the merry-go-round I
described in the original report...

Either this, or applying the Edgy fix, would be less confusing for users, I
think. (I know it isn't a major priority, but Opera is still there in
app-install on searching, and still suggests enabling dapper-commercial)

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Arlough (arloevans) wrote :

This bug also occurs in Dapper 6.06 LTS for AMD 64.
Admittedly, I haven't tried it yet with Opera (I hadn't gotten that far down the list) but I encountered it trying to install RealPlayer 10.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

The fix is to invasive for Dapper.

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