This works: http://mattgoodall.blogspot.com/2009/09/build-couchdb-on-ubuntu-910-karmic.html.

Can anyone else suggest a better way?

- Matt


2009/11/6 Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>:
> I have updated my laptop from Xubuntu Jaunty to Karmic.
>
> I now find that if I install the libmozjs-dev package, required to build
> couchdb, it insists on uninstalling Firefox. This is rather annoying.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install libmozjs-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  libnspr4-dev
> The following packages will be REMOVED
>  firefox firefox-3.5 firefox-3.5-branding ubufox xulrunner-1.9.1
> The following NEW packages will be installed
>  libmozjs-dev libnspr4-dev
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/466kB of archives.
> After this operation, 24.0MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
>
> Is anybody else seeing this? Is it the same with a fresh Karmic install, or
> just an artefact of the upgrade process?
>
> And is there someone here who knows enough about dpkg dependencies to work
> out what the problem is? I can show some info but I can't see any obvious
> conflicts.
>
> $ apt-cache showpkg libmozjs-dev
> Package: libmozjs-dev
> Versions:
> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
>  Description Language:
>                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_universe_binary-i386_Packages
>                  MD5: b123ef11961280a2acecade73e16ccbd
>
>
> Reverse Depends:
>  xulrunner-1.9.1,libmozjs-dev
>  libxul-dev,libmozjs-dev 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
>  libsablot0-dev,libmozjs-dev
>  xulrunner-1.9.1,libmozjs-dev
> Dependencies:
> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 - libmozjs0d (2 1.8.1.16+nobinonly) libnspr4-dev (0 (null)) mozilla-browser (3 2:1.8)
> Provides:
> 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 -
> Reverse Provides:
>
> $ apt-cache showpkg libnspr4-dev
> Package: libnspr4-dev
> Versions:
> 4.8-0ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_binary-i386_Packages)
>  Description Language:
>                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_binary-i386_Packages
>                  MD5: 5fb64e5ffcd6242fc78f56e991c9d6df
>
>
> Reverse Depends:
>  xulrunner-1.9.1-dev,libnspr4-dev
>  libxul-dev,libnspr4-dev
>  libmozjs-dev,libnspr4-dev
>  xulrunner-1.9.1-dev,libnspr4-dev
>  libnss3-dev,libnspr4-dev
>  libnspr4-0d,libnspr4-dev 4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu2
>  libnspr4-0d,libnspr4-dev 4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu2
>  libedataserver1.2-dev,libnspr4-dev
> Dependencies:
> 4.8-0ubuntu1 - libnspr4-0d (2 4.8) libnspr4-0d (1 4.8-0ubuntu1.1~) libnspr-dev (0 (null)) libnspr4 (0 (null)) nvu-dev (0 (null))
> Provides:
> 4.8-0ubuntu1 -
> Reverse Provides:
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>