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Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] cannot install Tidy .xpo as non-root!

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Hi Peter,

I will try to see if I can do something to get a better error message.
The thing is that on Mozilla only (not firefox) you need to be root
to install the extension or at least a user with a lot of directory right
to copy all the file of the extension.

In Firefox, happily, this is not needed anymore.

Thanks for the feedback,

Marc

Szabo Peter wrote:
> Dear Marc,
>
> I use Mozilla 1.7.8 on Debian Sarge, and when I try to install Tidy
>
>   http://htmlvalidator.sourceforge.net/mozilla/tidy_firefox_linux_0794.=
xpi
>
> as non-root, I get the error message that I need write permission on
> /home/*/chrome and /usr/lib/mozilla/components. This is a wrong error m=
essage,
> because I _do_ have recursive write permission on both dirs! Installing=
 as
> root works. I think this is a bug in Tidy, and the error message should=
 be
> corrected: ``Run Mozilla as root and install Tidy from there.''.
>
> Best regards,
>
> P=E9ter Szab=F3
> free software consultant
> Free Software Institute, Hungary
>
>
>
>  =20

Re: [Htmlvalidator-help] cannot install Tidy .xpo as non-root!

[Marc G. <mg...@sk...>]

Hi Szabo,

I will tell it like this. I have no Debian but several SuSE installs.( 
CPU 32 bits)
I use mozilla 1.7.x with this version 
http://htmlvalidator.sourceforge.net/mozilla/tidy_firefox_linux_0793.xpi
And it works fine.

There is nothing special to do, except that you have to install the 
extension as root
to allow the copy of 2 files in the directory of Mozilla.

Beeing root is not neccessary in Firefox since Firefox fixes the problem 
of extensions
with platform dependent dynamic libraries.

Also depending of the Linux distribution you need to install 
compatibility packages:
See http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/faq.html point 3

Hope it helps,

Marc

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Szabo Peter wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:10:39 +0200, Marc Gueury wrote 
>   
>> Just by curiosity, you are trying to install it on Mozilla Suite 1.7 or
>>     
> Seamonkey ? 
>   
>> I do not support Seamonkey I do not use it personally and do not have enough 
>> requests to do it. It works on Mozilla Suite for sure, I use it everyday.
>>     
> Which platform 
>   
>> do you use ? 
>>     
>
> Could you please give me a Tidy that works and can be installed to this
> Mozilla Suite configuration:
>
> Mozilla 1.7.8
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20060628
> Debian/1.7.8-1sarge7.1
> Mozilla Debian Package 1.7.8-1sarge7.1
>
>
>
>