Re: [libreoffice-website] web site download install type error

On 11/11/2011 06:52 AM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Cor, *,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Cor Nouws<oolst@nouenoff.nl>  wrote:
> > webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (11-11-11 01:25)
> > > I noticed today, while working with a 32-bit DEB based server, that when
> > > I go to the download page for 3.4.4, the page chooses 32-bit RPM instead
> > > of the 32-bit DEB version. It happened with Ubuntu 11.04 and Mint 11.
> > This behaviour is as you may expect it from the website.
> > Selecting the type of Linux package is what you have to do.
> Well - yes. It defaults to RPM unless it can tell from the browser's
> identification string that it is ubuntu or debian. As those are the
> only ones who did alter the user-agent string.
>
> > There has been some discussion on this is the past. I also once had the idea
> > that it was new, that I had to do that choice myself. People convinced me
> > that I must have been confused ;-)
> Well, not confused just that the broswer's response doesn't give a hint anymore.
>
> The detection uses:
> navigator.platform for the OS and 32bit vs 64bit detection
> navigator.userAgent for trying to guess the package format (if it
> contains *buntu, debian, iceweasel → deb, otherwise rpm)
> navigator.language / navigator.userLanguage for getting the language.
>
> If you know a way on how to detect debian/ubuntu more reliably, don't
> hesitate to share your knowledge :-)
>
> You can check on this page what the values your browser reports are:
> http://jsfiddle.net/ZZRSk/embedded/result/
>
> If you think that any info can be used to derive "ah, this is a
> deb-user", then please share the results :-)
>
> ciao
> Christian
Well
I was using Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 with their default versions of 
Firefox on a 32-bit system.  It detected the 32-bit English, but not the 
need for a DEB install.  The same for Linux Mint 11.  It is based on 
Ubuntu and it now getting more users since it has not gone to Unity as 
Ubuntu did.  I never failed to see the type of install I needed before.  
It detected Windows properly and it detected Ubuntu's 10.10 and 10.04 
properly for both 32-bit and 64-bit.  It just was when I went to that 
page with OSs that were Ubuntu 11.xx based.

I wonder if Firefox 4.x and up could be the issue?  I use 3.x.x with 
Ubuntu 10.xx and the same for Windows.  I do not like the new look for 
FF and I avoid it if possible.  Ubuntu/Mint 11.xx used FF 4.x.x as its 
default.

Could you add to the list Linux Mint as a detected value for DEBs?

Also, I ran that browser detail link and it only showed that the OS was 
Linux, not Ubuntu, Mint, DEB or RPM based.

.

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