Zeitgeist Data-Sources

can't install firefox extension, install script not found

Bug #672079 reported by Lyle Underwood on 2010-11-07

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Zeitgeist Data-Sources	Fix Committed	Medium	Michal Hruby

Bug Description

I may be terribly confused, but when the Zeitgeist add-on didn't show up in my list in FF 3.6.12 after a make local-install I tried installing it by dragging and dropping ZeitgeistDataProvider.xpi onto the FF window. It gave me a normal install add-on dialog, and after clicking install I got the following error:

"Firefox could not install the file at

file:///home/lyle/dev/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-dataproviders/firefox-libzg/ZeitgeistDataprovider.xpi

because: Install script not found
-204"

I don't know a lot about FF extensions, but my understanding was that some form of install script (install.*) was required at the root of the xpi archive.

Revision history for this message

3jioy-ctpejiok (3jioy-ctpejiok) wrote on 2010-12-10:

Maybe this solution will help you:

sudo apt-get isntall xulrunner-dev bzr libzeitgeist-dev
cd
bzr branch lp:zeitgeist-dataproviders
cd zeitgeist-dataproviders/
./autogen.sh
cd firefox-libzg
make
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/xul-ext-zeitgeist
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/xul-ext-zeitgeist/chrome/content
sudo make install