Derrick: Thanks for the report. Your steps to reproduce the issue seem somewhat roundabout to me. Bear in mind that any time you have to build packages from source in order to reproduce a bug, there is probably a better (simpler) way to do things! Nevertheless, I tried to follow your approach.
Here is what I tried to reproduce this issue: (1) Create a new virtual machine, and install Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 i386 on it. (2) In a terminal window in that newly created Ubuntu 9.04 machine, do: # Install older Jaunty version of bibledit sudo apt-get -y install bibledit (3) Now to try to reproduce your approach and this issue. In a terminal window, do: # Install basic development tools sudo apt-get -y install build-essential devscripts # Grab the latest bibledit source package 3.7-1 from Ubuntu archives mkdir -p ~/packages/bibledit cd ~/packages/bibledit dget ftp://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/b/bibledit/bibledit_3.7-1.dsc dpkg-source -x *.dsc # Install build dependencies sudo apt-get -y build-dep bibledit # Install more build dependenceis for the newer package sudo apt-get -y install rcs libenchant-dev libgtkhtml3.14-dev git-core sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev # Build new version of bibledit from source cd bibledit-3.7 debuild -us -uc # Install it sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb This works fine, and bibledit (version 3.7) now runs normally on this system. HOWEVER, after more experimenting, I did find a way to reproduce the issue -- it seems to require that you install bibledit-data before installing/updating bibledit itself. NOTE: The simpler way by far to get to this point in Jaunty at the moment would be to use the CrossWire Packaging Team PPA and so avoid needing to build anything from scratch, by replacing (3) above with: wget https://launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+archive/ppa/+files/crosswire-ppa_1.6~09.04_all.deb sudo dpkg -i crosswire*.deb sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install bibledit Job done -- this approach also works fine, needs no development tools, and is a *lot* quicker :) Oh, and you'll get updates as we release them into the PPA, too! Once Karmic is released, we expect to be able to get a backported version of bibledit 3.7 into the jaunty-backports repository, so people can enable that and install from there, rather that needing to use a (less trusted) PPA. I'll package Bibledit 3.7.42 (the latest source tarball release of Bibledit) and correct this issue. Thanks, Jonathan ** Changed in: bibledit (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => In Progress ** Changed in: bibledit (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) -- Package failed to install and crashed... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370978 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs