Error No Alternatives For Xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so
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This bug affects 2 people Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) Edit Fix Released High Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226911 bug's status. Affecting: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) Filed here by: Matti Lindell When: 2008-05-08 Confirmed: 2008-06-05 Started work: 2008-06-05 Completed: 2008-06-30 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Fix Released High Assigned to Nobody Me Comment error no on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report sun-java5 (Ubuntu) Edit Fix Released Undecided Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: sun-java5 (Ubuntu) Filed here by: Max Bowsher When: 2008-05-05 Confirmed: 2008-07-09 Started work: 2008-07-09 Completed: 2008-07-09 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex error no alternatives Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Fix Released Undecided Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report sun-java6 (Ubuntu) Edit Fix Released Undecided Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: sun-java6 (Ubuntu) Filed here by: Max Bowsher When: 2008-05-05 Confirmed: 2008-07-09 Started work: 2008-07-09 Completed: 2008-07-09 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Fix Released Undecided Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description sun-java6-{bin,demo,