Ubuntu
moon package

unable to install some plug in due to Linux_ppc-gcc3

Bug #500785 reported by sixty69nine
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mono
Confirmed
Wishlist
moon (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

"Novell Moonlight" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_ppc-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem.

You are using Ubuntu 9.10
- the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011.

please tell me what i should do.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Sun Dec 27 21:58:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-powerpc64-smp
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-powerpc64-smp ppc64

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sixty69nine (sixtynine4ever) wrote :
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Moving to moon package for Triage

affects: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) → moon (Ubuntu)
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In , Novell-x (novell-x) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5) Gecko/20091206 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.6b5

An Ubuntu user has requested Moonlight for PowerPC.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moon/+bug/500785

Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567356
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and wait for upstream to work on this. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

Changed in moon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Jo Shields (directhex) wrote :

The error you report happens when installing a .xpi file from go-mono.com, it is not a problem in the Ubuntu packaging (which specifically is patched to allow building on architectures like PowerPC)

Changed in moon (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in mono:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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