121971 - Allow for command-line non-interactive install of .xpi files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77365

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Cline]

I'd like a way to non-interactively install .xpi packages from the
command line.  I frequently download the latest nightly version of
Mozilla, and this blows away and extensions or XUL apps I've installed
from .xpi file.  Rather than manually reinstall them each time, I'd
like to handle the reinstallation in the shell script that handles the
fetching and installation of the Mozilla tarball.

While I've marked the OS for the RFE as "Linux", this enhancement
could be applied on an UNIX OS, or any OS that make heavy use of the
command line.

Comment 1

[Thorsten Konetzko]

I'd like to see that on win32 as well -- same problem here, I download the
nightly every (workday) morning, an unnattended install option would be great!

And I do believe this is a "must have" for mozilla to be accepted in business
environments: our corporate IT dept is responsible for some 10.000 PCs, they'd
NEVER EVER install oder support any product, if the [re|un]installation is not
"scriptable".

Change OS to "All" ?

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77365 ***

Comment 3

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

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