Install xulrunner on Ubuntu 12.10?

[Jack Kelly]

I believe that I need to install xulrunner. But I'm running 12.10. When I try to install xulrunner-1.9.2 I get the following error:



jack@probook:~$ sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xulrunner-1.9.2 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 'xulrunner-1.9.2' has no installation candidate


Launchpad does have xulrunner listed under 12.10 (https://launchpad.net/xulrunner/+packages) but there are no releases available yet.

Do I just need to be patient?

(Why do I need xulrunner? To allow Eclipse 4.2.1 to use SWT (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux).)

[albandy]

In lauchpad I get this message:

There is no current release of this source package in The Quantal Quetzal. You can still report bugs, make translations, and so on, but they might not be used until the package is published.

So you can try to install the 12.04 package.

[Jack Kelly]

Thanks for the very quick reply!

I tried to install the .deb file for xulrunner-1.9.2 for 11.04 (Natty) (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/amd64/xulrunner-1.9.2/1.9.2.28+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.1) but Software Manager complained that there was an unresolved dependency (I couldn't find a version of xulrunner for a more recent Ubuntu release).

So instead I manually downloaded xulrunner-10.0.2 from mozilla (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/10.0.2/runtimes/), extracted it to ~/opt/xulrunner and then added
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/home/jack/opt/xulrunner to my eclipse.ini file (as recommended here (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#specifyxulrunner)). This seems to work!

[Jack Kelly]

I've updated the Eclipse page of the Ubuntu Wiki:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EclipseIDE#A.22Failed_to_create_a_browser_control_ to_display_diff..22_error