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Situation: I'm trying to install selective packages to Ubuntu Mini Remix
12.04 Precise and build up an Xfce remix.

After I had installed  notify-osd  and  libnotify-bin  in Precise, I
tried sending test notification via Terminal. But nothing appears on
Desktop and no error was displayed in Terminal. And I'm sure there is
*no* broken packages either.

Few days had passed and I thought of trying to install other application
which relies on notify-osd. So I installed  pidgin  and  pidgin-
libnotify  packages. To my surprise, when I sent test notification via
Terminal again, the notification pops up as it should!

Things works *after* I had installed  pidgin  and  pidgin-libnotify
--This is for sure. Among the dependencies of  pidgin-libnotify, I found
that these packages--  libgtk2.0-0, libindicate-gtk3, libindicate5
--which are *not* dependencies of notify-osd (or libnotify4), might have
fixed the notification pop-up to work as it should.

To reproduce this issue, do as following:

1.   apt-get install notify-osd libnotify-bin
2.   notify-send -i system "test notification" "you can see means it works"
      // You will not see any notification pop-up in this step
3.   apt-get install pidgin pidgin-libnotify
4.  repeat step 2
      // You can see the notification pop-up now

Hope this matter is clarified.

** Affects: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: libnotify-bin notify-osd precise
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missing dependencies when installing packages in precise
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078775
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