Hi Jan,
You were correct - the launcher problem went away following my reboot this 
morning.
Many Thanks for your assistance!
Cheers,
John

On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:24:25 PM UTC+11, Jan Groenewald wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> I'm guessing whatever launcher problem you have will go away
> once you've rebooted.
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
> On 14 November 2012 07:19, JJS137 <john.s...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>> I ran the second command but it did not find anything to do. The Launcher 
>> had some issue because the first command actually started Sage in my 
>> browser (Firefox). That instance worked fine. The launcher still has a 
>> problem, but the sign in page is presented when using the standard URL.
>> Many Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:55:29 AM UTC+11, JJS137 wrote:
>>>
>>> The Sage 5.4 installation on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS using Update Manager fails 
>>> with the following messages:
>>>
>>> installArchives() failed: (Reading database ... 
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>>> (Reading database ... 717630 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Preparing to replace libav-tools 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libav-tools_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libav-tools ...
>>> Preparing to replace libpostproc52 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libpostproc52_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libpostproc52 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libavfilter2 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libavfilter2_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libavfilter2 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libswscale2 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libswscale2_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libswscale2 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libavdevice53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libavdevice53_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libavdevice53 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libavformat53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libavformat53_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libavformat53 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libavcodec53 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libavcodec53_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libavcodec53 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libavutil51 4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 (using 
>>> .../libavutil51_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libavutil51 ...
>>> Preparing to replace libproxy1-plugin-**networkmanager 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 
>>> (using .../libproxy1-plugin-**networkmanager_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.**1_i386.deb) 
>>> ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libproxy1-plugin-**networkmanager ...
>>> Preparing to replace libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using 
>>> .../libproxy1-plugin-**gsettings_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1_**i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libproxy1-plugin-gsettings ...
>>> Preparing to replace libproxy1 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using 
>>> .../libproxy1_0.4.7-0ubuntu4.**1_i386.deb) ...
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>>> .../ffmpeg_4%%3a0.8.4-**0ubuntu0.12.04.1_all.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement ffmpeg ...
>>> Preparing to replace sagemath-upstream-binary 5.1 (using 
>>> .../sagemath-upstream-binary_**5.4_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement sagemath-upstream-binary ...
>>> Preparing to replace python-libproxy 0.4.7-0ubuntu4 (using 
>>> .../python-libproxy_0.4.7-**0ubuntu4.1_all.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement python-libproxy ...
>>> Processing triggers for man-db ...
>>> Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
>>> Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.**index...
>>> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
>>> Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
>>> Setting up libavutil51 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libavcodec53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libavformat53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libavdevice53 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libswscale2 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libavfilter2 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libpostproc52 (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libav-tools (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up libproxy1 (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> Setting up libproxy1-plugin-**networkmanager (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> Setting up libproxy1-plugin-gsettings (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> Setting up ffmpeg (4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...
>>> Setting up sagemath-upstream-binary (5.4) ...
>>> Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path /usr/lib/sagemath)
>>> Running Sage once as root to set paths
>>> Error: environment variable $HOME is not set.
>>> Error setting environment variables by sourcing 
>>> '/usr/lib/sagemath/spkg/bin/**sage-env';
>>> possibly contact sage-devel (see http://groups.google.com/**
>>> group/sage-devel <http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel>).
>>> dpkg: error processing sagemath-upstream-binary (--configure):
>>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
>>> status 1
>>> No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>>> Setting up python-libproxy (0.4.7-0ubuntu4.1) ...
>>> Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>>> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  sagemath-upstream-binary
>>> Error in function: 
>>> SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>> Setting up sagemath-upstream-binary (5.4) ...
>>> Removing previous path, rm -rf /usr/lib/sage (new path /usr/lib/sagemath)
>>> Running Sage once as root to set paths
>>> Error: environment variable $HOME is not set.
>>> Error setting environment variables by sourcing 
>>> '/usr/lib/sagemath/spkg/bin/**sage-env';
>>> possibly contact sage-devel (see http://groups.google.com/**
>>> group/sage-devel <http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel>).
>>> dpkg: error processing sagemath-upstream-binary (--configure):
>>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
>>> status 1
>>>
>>> Is there a work around or fix for this problem?
>>>
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