firefox --install-global-extension does not work on feisty?

[Caleb Marcus]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:57 -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote:

> On other distributions (eg old Red Hat's) using firefox 2.0.0.11 I can 
> install global extensions using
> 
> # firefox --install-global-extension some-extension.xpi
> 
> This does NOT work on my Ubuntu Feisty install though (firefox 2.0.0.11). 
> There are no errors; but nothing seems to happen either.
> 
> Does anyone know if this does/should work on Ubuntu?
> 
> Thanks
> R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts
> 
> 

If you're going to make global changes, you need to be root... it seems
that you were running the command as root on Red Hat because the prompt
in your command is # and not $. To run a command as root on Ubuntu, put
sudo before the command... making it < sudo firefox
--install-global-extension some-extension.xpi >
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