On 05/24/2010 12:38 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> On 05/23/2010 09:25 PM, Philip Chee wrote: >>> On Sun, 23 May 2010 15:54:26 -0700, NoOp wrote: >>>> Can you please advise which extensions required root access? Note: not a >>>> confrontational question, just curious as this is the first I've heard >>>> of this. >>> >>> Basically all extensions that have default preferences and/or >>> components. All these had to be installed somewhere under the SeaMonkey >>> application directory. >>> >>> You might have chmod'ed your SeaMonkey application directory a long time >>> ago and have forgotten that you did it. >> >> I guess I'm still confused... just switch back to SeaMonkey 1.1.19 to >> reply. The _only_ thing that I've done to install is to extract the >> seamonkey-1.1.19.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz to a home folder >> (/home/seamonkey119) and run it from there: >> >> /home/<username>/seamonkey119/./seamonkey -no-remote -mail -browser > > In that case you probably did that as your user. Philip and I were > talking about a global install done by the root user, e.g. under > /usr/local. With your setup all application files are owned by your user > so you can of course install any extension.
I was replying to: > On 05/23/2010 02:23 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote: >> > Rob Lindauer wrote: >>> >> The Seamonkey install instructions I've been using (successfully) for a >>> >> year or two have me expand the Seamonkey tar/bz2 file into a >>> >> subdirectory under home, and manually add an entry in my Gnome/Kde menu, >>> >> as opposed to installing via Synaptic/Apt. The rationale as I recall is >>> >> that I as nonprivileged user can thereafter add extensions, and no have >>> >> to run as root when doing so. >> > >> > With SeaMonkey versions before 2.0 there were extensions that needed to >> > be installed into the application directory so you needed access to that >> > directory, which usually meant you needed to be root. Starting with >> > version 2.0 SeaMonkey uses the same add-on back-end as recent versions >> > of Firefox which means that you can install all kinds of extensions into >> > your user profile which does not require special privileges. > ??? > I've been running SM 1.x from a home folder for a very long time & still > have the latest 1.1.19 installed & working from a home folder. > Can you please advise which extensions required root access? Note: not a > confrontational question, just curious as this is the first I've heard > of this. > ... The OP was asking about continuing to install in the /home folder. That question/response had nothing to do with installing globally. > > BTW: -no-remote does nothing with SeaMonkey version prior to 2.0. Just > remove it. I beg to differ; if I have SeaMonkey 2.x running and I start 1.1.19 without the '-no-remote' command all I get is a new browser window in 2.x. However, if I start 1.1.19 using '-no-remote' I get SeaMonkey 1.1.19 running side-by-side to SeaMonkey 2.x. So obviously your experience differs than mine, but I've been running them side-by-side for some time and can replicate if you wish. $ ps -e |grep seamonkey 2055 ? 00:00:00 seamonkey2 <== SM 2.0.5 2074 ? 00:09:00 seamonkey-bin 5339 pts/1 00:00:00 seamonkey <=== SM 1.1.19 5346 pts/1 00:00:01 seamonkey-bin _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
