Daniel wrote:
Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote on 4/2/21 10:05 pm:
Daniel wrote:
Today I (finally) updated from SM 2.49.1 to SM 2.53.6 on Linux, as
shown in my sig file.
On my Win7 installation (updated from SM 2.49.5), after the update, I
had Lightning starting at SM bootup, but not in Linux which I have
updated, today, from SM 2.49.1 .... yes 2.49.1.
Now I seem to recall that in SM 2.49.1, Lightning wasn't "inbuilt"
but by 2.49.5, it was.
So, when I updated my *Win7* SM from 2.49.5, Lightning worked/works,
but in Linux (now 2.53.6), checking the Add-ons Manager, Lightning is
there but I only have the option to "Remove" because "Lightning is
incompatible with SeaMonkey 2.53.6"
How can I get my Lightning up and running??
(Note: when I say I've updated SM, I mean I have installed Linux SM
2.53.6 in parallel (new location) with SM 2.49.1, but using the same
profile!)
From https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.53.6/
section "Known Issues":
Lightning or one of the distributed extensions is not showing up or
is disabled under Add-ons.
If the extension is disabled and can not be enabled deinstall it. If
it does not show up after restart do the following:
Enter "about:config" in the location bar.
Enter "extensions.installedDistroAddon" in the search field.
Reset the key of the extension not showing up using the popup
menu with the mouse. If in doubt just reset all keys, but this might
bring back previously uninstalled distributed Add-ons.
Restart SeaMonkey.
Thanks for this, Don.
When I entered "extensions.installedDistroAddon" in the search field, I
had four keys listed ....
extensions.installeddistroaddon.debu...@mozilla.org;modified;true;boolean
extensions.installeddistroaddon.inspec...@mozilla.org;modified;true;boolean
extensions.installedDistroAddon.{59c81df5-4b7a-477b-912d-4e0fdf64e5f2};modified;true;true
extensions.installedDistroAddon.{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103};modified;true;true
So I reset the third and fourth keys and, when I restarted SeaMonkey, I
had just the first two keys left .... and still no Lightning/Calendar!! ;-(
Should I try resetting the first two (even though they appear to be
totally disconnected with Lightning/Calendar)??
Did you first uninstall any version of Lightning currently installed in
your profile? It might show up as disabled in the Add-ons manager, but
still needs to be uninstalled so that the new bundled version can be
installed. I think once the bundled version has been installed by one
version of SeaMonkey, it gets automatically updated in future, but not
sure if that happens if you already have a version installed from before
SeaMonkey started bundling it. So uninstall any existing version of
Lightning, then reset the pref (it looks like
{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} is the one for Lightning),
restart SeaMonkey and hopefully it will install automatically.
If that's still not working, the XPI file for the extension is installed
along with SeaMonkey, so you might be able to install it into your
profile from there. From the add-ons manager, click the cog near the
top-right corner, choose "Install Add-on From File" and select the XPI
file. On my Linux system, it's at
/opt/seamonkey/distribution/extensions/e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}.xpi,
so I'd guess on Windows the path would be something like "C:\Program
Files\SeaMonkey\..." or perhaps "C:\Program Files\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\...".
Lightning is quite closely tied to SeaMonkey, so you need compatible
versions. Aside from the other problems with sharing a single profile
between multiple SeaMonkey versions, you may find that Lightning only
works in one version, since you can only have one version of Lightning
installed in that profile. I think Lightning is also one of a few
OS-specific extensions, so you might also find that it only works in
whichever OS you installed Lightning for even if the versions are
otherwise identical (I'm almost certain that at least used to be the
case - not entirely sure whether it still is).
--
Mark.
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