building elinks with javascript support breaks Gnome

Henrik Nilsen Omma henrik at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 4 16:01:32 UTC 2006


Hi Kenny,

Could you file a bug explaining the situation here: 
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/elinks/+bugs ?

Not sure we can do this for Edgy and there may be good reasons why it 
was disabled. We might be able to make a separate download available though.

Henrik

Kenny Hitt wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Since Firefox accessibility still has a ways to go, I do most of my web
> browsing with elinks.  Unfortunately, the Ubuntu elinks package has
> javascript support disabled.  When I try to install the libmozjs-dev
> package needed to get javascript support in elinks, aptitude wants to
> remove large parts of gnome to satisfy dependencies.
>
> Would it be possible to enable javascript support in the Ubuntu elinks
> package?  If not, does anyone know a way to install the libmozjs-dev
> package so I can build elinks from source without breaking Gnome?
>   






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