Thanks for your report. I can reproduce it on impish.
When trying on jammy, I get another result though... It installs lynx
instead of Firefox. :/
I think this has something to do with the virtual package www-browser.
$ apt-cache show gimp-help-en | grep Depends
Depends: gimp-help-common (= 2.10.0-1), gimp-helpbrowser | www-browser
Apparently the Firefox snap does not provide the www-browser virtual
package, and hence is not recognized as a web browser by the gimp-help-*
packages.
So on jammy:
$ lsb_release -ds
Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch)
$ sudo apt-get install www-browser | head -5
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package www-browser is a virtual package provided by:
lynx:i386 2.9.0dev.10-1
E: Package 'www-browser' has no installation candidate
(i.e. Lynx first in the list)
And on impish:
$ lsb_release -ds
Ubuntu 21.10
$ sudo apt-get install www-browser | head -5
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package www-browser is a virtual package provided by:
firefox 94.0+build3-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
E: Package 'www-browser' has no installation candidate
(i.e. Firefox first in the list)
I guess it would be possible to add some "hack" to language-selector to
fix the specific issue as reported in this bug. But we should probably
try to find a more proper fix, where the Firefox snap actually is
recognized as a web browser by the system.
** Also affects: snapcraft
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: snapcraft
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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language support app automatically installs firefox deb package
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