building elinks with javascript support breaks Gnome

Krister Ekstrom krister at kristersplace.ws
Wed Oct 4 17:00:33 UTC 2006


I can confirm that it is so. I tried to install the necessary components
to get the Javascript support and had my gnome removed. I had to install
it again, and this removed the javascript components...
/Krister

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:39 -0500, 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?
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> 




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