problems installing de_DE.xpi for firefox

Forum: Apps
Topic: problems installing de_DE.xpi for firefox
started by: mark_one

Posted by mark_one on Feb. 08 2006,11:07

hi dsl users.

i've got a problem that i am not able to solve for weeks now. maybe one of you can help me out.
all i want to do is to install german locale support for firefox, so i can use the german user interface. i use dsl2.1RC3b.

when i try to uncompress the dsl image, change to the dirs via chroot and then install the mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de, i get dependency issues:
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bash-2.05b# apt-get install mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
make: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0)
mozilla-firefox-locale-de-de:
Depends: mozilla-firefox (>= 1.0-3) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mozilla-firefox (< 1.0.999) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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apt-get -f install doesn't work, it seems not possible to upgrade fileutils.

ok, so far so bad. the other way i tried is:
booting dsl, creating a new user profile and then install de_DE.xpi by using the "Open File" dialog. seems to work fine as the installation dialog appears and i can click on the "install" button. but then i get the message "This item will be installed after you restarf Firefox".
but when i do that, nothing happens.

there are some suspicous messages when i start the program from the console:
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*** loaging the extension datasource
*** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application directory, skipping.
....and so on...foobar
*** getItemProperty failing for lack of an item. This means getResourceForItem failed to locate a resource for aItemID (item ID = file:///ramdisk/home/dsl/de-DE.xpi, property=disabled)
*** getItemProperty failing for lack of an item. This means getResourceForItem failed to locate a resource for aItemID (item ID = file:///ramdisk/home/dsl/de-DE.xpi, property = internalName
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i am searching the net for weeks now to find a solution but nothing helped. i checked the file permissions so that it's sure that i can write to the /usr/local/firefox directory. i also started the prog as root user to try it but i get the same messages, saying that i don't habe access privileges to the app directory. i wonder where that comes from. and finally i tried to use the program "strace" to find out why i don't have those access privileges. no success so far.

some people say that one has to delete the compreg.dat in the ~/.mozilla/firefox/user/ directory and then start firefox again but that didn't help. others say that one has to delete all user profiles and then create a new one. didn't help. nothing helped. i tried 1000 different tipps and "solutions" but nothing worked.

i'm sure it's just another damn stupid failure. but i didn't find out yet.
now, what's reeeeallly funny is: i've already managed to do it, some weeks ago. but i forgot to make a backup of the user dir and the firefox dir. and after rebooting.... well... you can guess it, can you?

EDIT:
now i've found some kind of "solution" that works, but it's not yet very satisfying for me. so if you got a better one, don't hesitate to tell me.

i found out that the de-DE.xpi gets installed but it's simply not used/registered. when i start firefox with "-UILocale de-DE", everything is in german. but there is still the question where those "no access privileges" messages come from. and why do i get the message that the package is getting installed after restarting firefox, but then nothing happens??? bug?

please help!!!!

mark