[Firefox 3.0] apt://-urls don't launch packet-manager

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

If you enter "about:config" as url, please look for an option called:

network.protocol-handler.app.apt with the value: /usr/bin/apturl

Is this existing? If so, what does

'ls -la /usr/bin/apturl'

say?

$ ls -la /usr/bin/apturl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12023 2008-04-16 00:40 /usr/bin/apturl

$ lsb_release -rc
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

$ apt-cache showpkg firefox
Package: firefox
Versions:
3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy-security_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy-updates_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 8178b112e411f81e8551cba3d8b48859

3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 (/var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/fi.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 8178b112e411f81e8551cba3d8b48859

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Have you had a look at

about:config?

What happens if you open a terminal and start apturl manually?
(e.g.: '/usr/bin/apturl firefox')
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Here is the current settings for about:config

apturl is present on the system:

$ apturl
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'

Ok, please try this command

apturl firefox

What does it say onscreen?

And please verify that in about:config the option network.protocol-handler.app.apt is set to apturl. I can't read your attachment to the previous comment.

$ apturl firefox
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'

about:config the option network.protocol-handler.app.apt says:

network.protocol-handler.app.apt;/usr/bin/apturl
network.protocol-handler.app.apt+http;/usr/bin/apturl

Lars Noodén wrote:
> $ apturl firefox
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
> warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
> QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'

And do you see a window popping up after this messages?

Yes, I see a window popping up after those messages. A warning dialog pops up with the message:

"Invalid url: 'firefox' given, exiting"

If I give 'apturl' a real URL / package, then it responds well with other dialogs:

e.g.
apturl apt://tidy

"Package 'tidy' is already installed"

e.g.
apturl apt://bind9

"Install package

Do you want to install the package 'bind9'?

Description

No Yes"

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

One thing I forgot to ask:

If you invoke firefox from a terminal, is there any message displayed?

$ firefox
QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'

That's it.

Just filed the bug upstream.

Changing status to triaged, since there's enough information to be worked on.

This is still a problem in the latest Jaunty alpha...

This seems to work fine in the latest Jaunty + Firefox combo. Can the reporter or someone else who previously had the issue confirm?

Moved to apturl package since the reporters comment does not mention that it is stricly a firefox apturl link.

Can the reporter of the upstream bug mark it invalid or such, this is not a bug direct to firefox

It appears to still be present in Jaunty. However, 8.04, the Long Term Support version, would be more useful to fix.

This bug is not releated to firefox nor is this bug task for firefox it is for upstream bugs, please leave it closed.

I have same issue on KK

Same issue on Karmic Koala.