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On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:57 -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On other distributions (eg old Red Hat's) using firefox 2.0.0.11 I can </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">install global extensions using</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"># firefox --install-global-extension some-extension.xpi</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This does NOT work on my Ubuntu Feisty install though (firefox 2.0.0.11). </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">There are no errors; but nothing seems to happen either.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone know if this does/should work on Ubuntu?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts</FONT>
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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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