Hello Matt, good thought, but my proxy setting is okay.
However, I have identified the problem: In the client chroot, apt is configured to not install the recommended packages (just hard dependencies). This is in contrast to the default behaviour in Ubuntu, where recommended packages are considered dependencies by default. ubuntu-restricted-extras depends on ubuntu-restricted-addons, which depends on -- nothing at all! In Oneiric, all packages in ubuntu-restricted-addons are recommends! (See http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ubuntu-restricted-addons). Hence, if you tell apt not to install the recommends, nothing gets installed. This raises two questions: 1. Why does ubuntu-restricted-addons only contain recommends, no dependencies? 2. Why is apt configured not to install recommends in the client chroot? This seems to be configured by the ltsp-build-client script, which puts the following file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/: root@ltsp118:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# cat 02ltsp-noinstallrecommends APT { Install-Recommends "false"; }; Why is apt configured like this in the chroot? Just to keep it small? At this time, I ask myself, if this breaks other things, too, not only ubuntu-restricted-extras/addons. Any comments? Best, Rüdiger Am 17.01.2012 13:08, schrieb Matt Johnson: > This may be nonsense as I don't know what I'm talking about, but... > > When this has failed for me before, it was because the internet > connection from the physical site had to be through a proxy and some of > the restricted extras download directly (probably using wget). > > I had to: > > *export http_proxy=http://myproxyaddress.com:80 <about:blank>* > > before running apt-get install > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Matt > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* kup <k...@kg-fds.de> > *To:* ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 7:44 > *Subject:* [Ltsp-discuss] No Plugins for Firefox running as local app / > ubuntu-restriced-extras not working as it should > > Hi, > > we have firefox running as a local application, and everything works > well, apart from the fact that I cannot get to install the plugins. > > I installed "ubuntu-restricted-extras" in the client chroot, and > installation finished fine, but "about:plugins" still shows no plugins > at all. > > I managed to install the flash plugin manually, by installing > "flash-plugin-installer" in the chroot -- but correct me if I'm > mistaken, this is what "ubuntu-restricted-extras" should have done? > > I guess that I could go and install each single plugin manually, but the > question to ask is rather, why "ubuntu-restricted-extras" does not do > its job when installed in the client chroot? > > Any ideas? > > Best, > Rüdiger > -- > Dr. Rüdiger Kupper <k...@kg-fds.de <mailto:k...@kg-fds.de>> > Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > > -- Dr. Rüdiger Kupper <k...@kg-fds.de> Kepler-Gymnasium Freudenstadt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
