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Date:      Sat, 04 Oct 2003 16:04:59 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Steve Peck <steve@xmagic.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla Firebird (Extensions)
Message-ID:  <1065297899.27243.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost>
References:  <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost>

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On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:08, Steve Peck wrote:
> Hi,
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> The port says this is where I should post any bugs, so here we go:-
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> I get some of the extensions for Firebird, in the extension list, to inst=
all just fine.
> from http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/
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> However, the one I really want - StumbleUpon - just wont.
> (http://www.stumbleupon.com)
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> It seems to think the file permissions are wrong (for the chrome dir?). B=
ut, IMHO, they're not!
> Firstly beause other extensions install OK,=20
> and I'm not sure chmod -R o+rw is a particularly good idea.

I believe some extensions can only be installed if you're running
Firebird as root.

Joe

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> Anyway,
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> install.log shows:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
> http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbleupon.xpi  --  10/04/2003 20:42:09
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
------
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>      stumbleupon toolbar (version 0.1.0)
>      -------------------
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>      [1/2]      Installing: /home/steve/.phoenix/default/qjw16f4h.slt/chr=
ome/stumbleupon.jar
>      [2/2]      Register Content: jar:file:///home/steve/.phoenix/default=
/qjw16f4h.slt/chrome/stumbleupon.jar!/content/stumbleupon/
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>      Install **FAILED** with error -239  --  10/04/2003 20:42:13
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>=20
> So, I get the old 239 Error. There was a whole bugfix (bug 109044) about =
this and a patch etc...!
> Do you think thats got something to do with it?
> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D109044)
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> Oh, the FreeBSD Handbook, on browsers, says something about running Mozil=
la as root!
> I tried this and GTK just complains about not being able to open the disp=
lay.
> The only way to do this is to run X as root, then open Mozilla. Is this r=
ight?
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> I've been searching around for a while now, but can't find anything else =
useful.
> I've cvsup'd the ports and re-installed firebird, but it didn't do the tr=
ick.
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> But, I hope you know something that can help. So over to you then ;-)
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> Good Luck & Cheers
> Steve Peck
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> BTW:
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> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD Orac 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Mon May 26 19:24:27 GMT =
2003     root@Orac:/usr/src/sys/compile/ORAC  i386
>=20
>=20
> $ head /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:    mozilla-firebird
> # Date created:                 May 31, 2003
> # Whom:                         Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
> #
> # $FreeBSD: ports/www/mozilla-firebird/Makefile,v 1.54 2003/09/06 18:34:3=
7 marcus Exp $
> #
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> $ /usr/bin/perl --version
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> This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-freebsd
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> Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
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