Need to be root to install plugins. was Re: [SLUG] Firebird Googlesearch to do Australia?
Peter Hardy wrote: You can install a firefox search plugin: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html , grep for Australia, click the linky thing. You need to be root to install plugins. And yes, the I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to install plugins it just crashes and exits. So perhaps thats the problem; it is trying to install into /usr/share/firefox/plugins. I could not find any option in the preferences to tell it to install plugins into its own directory .firefix/plugins. I do not intend to login as root and install plugins. Has anyone had probs like this installing plugins on Linux? On my Windows box plugins install fine. Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Need to be root to install plugins. was Re: [SLUG] Firebird Googlesearch to do Australia?
On 07/15/04 11:05, Michael Lake wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: You can install a firefox search plugin: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html , grep for Australia, click the linky thing. You need to be root to install plugins. And yes, the I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to install plugins it just crashes and exits. So perhaps thats the problem; it is trying to install into /usr/share/firefox/plugins. On my x86 deebian box firefox doesn't crash. It behaves exactly as if the plugin installed correctly (ie: does nothing). An error message would have been nice, and saved me 10 minutes of headscratching. I could not find any option in the preferences to tell it to install plugins into its own directory .firefix/plugins. I do not intend to login as root and install plugins. A lot of extensions have the option of installing globally or in a user's home directory. It's a shame the search plugins don't. In fact, I think I'm going to go file a bug. In the meantime, though, I guess you could try grabbing http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/googleAU.src and putting that in a searchplugins directory under your homedir. You'd also need to copy /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins/google.gif to googleAU.gif in your user one. Note that I'm not sure if this will actually work. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Need to be root to install plugins. was Re: [SLUG] Firebird Googlesearch to do Australia?
On 07/15/04 11:17, Peter Hardy wrote: On 07/15/04 11:05, Michael Lake wrote: I could not find any option in the preferences to tell it to install plugins into its own directory .firefix/plugins. I do not intend to login as root and install plugins. A lot of extensions have the option of installing globally or in a user's home directory. It's a shame the search plugins don't. In fact, I think I'm going to go file a bug. Too late! http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123315 In the meantime, though, I guess you could try grabbing http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/googleAU.src and putting that in a searchplugins directory under your homedir. Er, read that as under your local firefox dir. Or somesuch. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Need to be root to install plugins. was Re: [SLUG] Firebird Googlesearch to do Australia?
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:26AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to install plugins it just crashes and exits. Firefox 0.8 has a problem on Power where installing any extension will just crash. Firefox 0.9 is in unstable now (assuming you use Debian) so install that and you'll be right. -i signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
