On 22 Dec, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> How do you do that? If I try to install Mozilla as a user, I am not
> permitted since it wants to install to /usr/local/mozilla and in a normal,
> basic setup, users are not permitted to write to or alter /usr/local
> directories or files. It is not an option to install it into my home
> directory, I want the browser to be usable to any and all users and it is
> horrendously inefficient to require that each user install their own copy of
> Mozilla. As a result, I always install it as superuser.
>
Right. After you've installed the browser using the installer (you do use
the installer, right?), a mozilla browser is automatically launched. Using
that browser, install all the plugins you need. Yeah, it's a pain in the
rump but until the installer figures out how to upgrade without removing
previously installed plugins, you're stuck with it.
> If I try to install the PSM as a user, it fails because it wants to place the
> PSM into /usr/local/mozilla/psm, a non-user-writeable directory. The only
> way I have been able to install the PSM is as superuser. I must then change
> the permissions on the /usr/local/mozilla/psm directory to be user
> read-writeable or PSM wont work for users (and attempting to open up the PSM
> as a user locks up Mozilla - so far for every version since 0.6 that I have
> tried UNLESS /usr/local/mozilla/psm is set world read-writeable).
>
Hmmm... I didn't know that. Check that it's been reported as a bug in
bugzilla or else it'll never get fixed.
> Last I checked too, the PSM is no longer downloadable. The site that I would
> be directed to for downloading it now says that it is built into current
> releases and I don't get a link for downloading.
>
Try the Debug | Install PSM menu option. It worked for me this morning.
> I have more recent source for mozilla now and will try building and
> installing that, but I don't yet see how this will fix the problems unless
> the default permissions of the psm directory are auto-changed by doing this.
> I will be building as user but to install the binary I must be superuser
> (again, so I can install to /usr/local/mozilla)...
>
Oh, you build it? Hmmm... I dunno, if the build don't work, try to get a
snapshot from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest
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