Closed Bug 147258 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Windows Stub installer does not install from local files (broken since 0.99)

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: a1291762, Assigned: dveditz)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 BuildID: 2002052306 The Windows stub installer has not been installing from local XPI files since 0.99. This has not been such a large problem as I have been able to manually upgrade with the XPI files. This became a problem today when the 1.0rc2 to 1.0rc3 upgrade failed. Mozilla crashed and I was left with a browser that wouldn't start. I installed 0.99 (the latest version I have with a working installer) and it wouldn't work right at all. I eventually had to remove the Mozilla directory and reinstall 0.99 from scratch then upgrade to 1.0rc3 (which didn't crash this time). I then had to re-apply my various 'hacks' (such as different icons for windows). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download stub installer and XPI files 2. Place them in the same directory 3. Install Mozilla Actual Results: Installer tried to grab files from the network. Expected Results: Installer should have used the files that were available. I have searched and found no documentation as to a new location for these files to be in. Does the stub installer still support installing from local files?
Unfortunately we had to disable that feature. Too many people were downloading the stub into their catch-all download directory into which they had previously downloaded one or more old .xpi files for whatever reason and then complaining about mysterious bugs (or more often, not running at all). You can do one of two things. Either use the -a <path> option to specify an alternate location for the .xpi files (must be a full path, you can't do "-a ."), or run the stub with the -u option to uncompress it, and then run the "setup.exe" that gets unpacked and it will find .xpi files in the same directory. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
v invalid. see bug 74522
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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