wrong dependence of lightning-extension

[John Vivirito]

On 07/08/2009 12:59 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:17:07AM +0800, 高珺 wrote:
>   
>> Hi, I'm a user of Xubuntu 9.04.
>> Today, I installed lightning-extension on my computer and find some
>> problems (no import menu item, etc.)
>> After searching useful information on the Internet, I found it was
>> caused by the wrong dependence.
>>
>> According to the System Requirement of Lightning.
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/system-requirements.html#linux
>> It is said that:
>> libstdc++5
>> (Many modern Linux distributions only package libstdc++6, which is
>> incompatible with Lightning. Therefore please install the package
>> "libstdc++5" or "compat-libstdc++" on your system *before*
>> installing Lightning)
>>
>> I installed libstdc++5 and then reinstall lightning-extension, the
>> problem described before was gone.
>>     
> This is only true for the upstream .xpi's..
>
> Our package uses libstdc++6 because its built against that lib in the
> first place. Upstream uses the v5 mostly for backward compatibility
> with old OSs.
>
> So if libstdc++5 really fixed this for you, my guess would be that you
> installed lightning from the net at some point and now thunderbird only
> sees that extension; thats because the profile installed extensions
> always win over the system wide provided ones in mozilla land.
>
> To check if thats your problem, go to Tools-> Addons and see if you
> can "Uninstall" lighting there. If so, do it. This will make our
> packaged lightning version reappear - and you wont need libstdc++5 for
> that.
>
> If not jump into #ubuntu-mozillateam on freenode; maybe someone can
> help you there.
>
>  - Alexander
>
>
>   
For some reason i forgot to add libstdc++* to lightning so installing
lightning only will not include it but sunbird is correct. I will fix
this for my PPA however i would like more fixes before i add it to
repos. I will get to this maybe next week or so.
sorry about that.

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

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