[Linux-disciples] Rendering foreign languages in Mozilla

[Adam Kessel]

There is no graceful way of dealing with xpi files with Debian Mozilla
right now. It's an issue in progress.

It's likely that the permissions changed on some files under ~/.mozilla
when you ran mozilla as root that screwed things up.

The easiest fix for now is to make /usr/lib/mozilla and directories
therein world writable, or at least create a group such that you can
write to that directory running a process as slaniel. (you might use,
e.g., group adm for that).  This way you can install moz plugins as
yourself and not get into this trouble.

If you want the change to stick over upgrades, you'll probably need to
use dpkg-statoverride.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Sorry for flooding the list, but another question arose for
> me in the process of trying to get this language-pack
> business solved. To install the 1.6 Greek language pack --
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html -- one
> needs to be running Mozilla as root; otherwise the pack
> generates an error and the installation doesn't complete.
> So I sudo Mozilla, install the pack, it goes fine, and I
> restart Mozilla (as myself). Result: all my bookmarks are
> trashed, presumably because Mozilla sees that it's running
> under a different username.
> 
> Is my whole process for installing .xpi files off, or what?
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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