On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:15:45AM -0700, Buzzy Nielsen wrote: <snip> > I was just wondering if there are plans, now that 2.1 stable is out, > to update the instructions for installing the staff client from > source in Linux? I'm referring the these instructions particularly:<br> > <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; > charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <a > href="http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux";>http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux</a><br> > <br> > I've tried these instructions in Fedora 15 and Mint 11 with revised > version numbers, where applicable, but haven't been able to get them > to work. I'm planning to deploy a few staff machines soon running > Mint 11, and it would be nice to have the client running natively > rather than in Wine.<br>
The instructions rely on a compatible version of xulrunner being available on your Linux client, but I can say that recent versions of XULRunner - as packaged with recent distros due to Firefox 6 / 7 / etc updates - don't work with the staff client. Thus I downloaded the Linux i686 XULRunner 1.9.2.17 tarball from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.2.17/runtimes/ , untar it, and invoke the xulrunner binary directly from that, with great success - at least for my testing and development purposes.
