Hi there, > For some reason at least some of the files were owned by root instead of me
sorry for this. It's a known issue[1] that was fixed on June the 30th and will be integrated in the next release. Best regards, Alex [1] http://gpgtools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/65162/tickets/77-wrong-permissions-when-installing-enigmail#ticket-77-2 2011/8/4 Ludwig Hügelschäfer <lud...@enigmail.net>: > Bill Shannon wrote on 04.08.11 18:11: >> Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote on 8/4/11 7:44 AM: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Bill Shannon wrote on 03.08.11 23:59: >>>> Following up my own message... >>>> >>>> After a brief offline discussion, I determined that the problem was due >>>> to some permission problems in the extension directory containing the >>>> Enigmail Thunderbird extension. For some reason at least some of the >>>> files were owned by root instead of me, so when Thunderbird tried to >>>> move the files to the trash directory, it failed. I ended up removing >>>> the files from Thunderbird's extension directory by hand, which caused >>>> Enigmail to disappear from the Add-ons list. >>>> >>>> This may be due to a bug in the installer for Enigmail... >>> >>> Enigmail is using the standard Add-On installation features of >>> Thunderbird (or more generally the Mozilla platform), so there is >>> nothing we can do from our side. A little search in >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ does not show anything related, so you >>> might want to open a bug there. >> >> I believe it got installed by the GPG installer. > > Ah, you're talking about the GPG-Tools-installer. As the enigmail team > doesn't provide it, I'm redirecting you to the gpgtools users list, > quoting fully and setting the reply-to to this list. > > Ludwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Enigmail mailing list > enigm...@mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/enigmail > > -- gpgtools.org _______________________________________________ gpgtools-users mailing list gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/arch...@mail-archive.com?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 This email sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com
