Closed Bug 148986 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

German language pack fails to install into moz 1.0 RC3

Categories

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: boris, Assigned: kairo)

Details

I'm using Mozialla 1.0 RC3 on a german RedHat 7.3 installation. I wanted to
install the German/Austria language pack. I clicked on the right link for 1.0
RC3, the file was downloaded but then a dialog window appeared saying: Error
-215  lang. pack cannot be installed.

What's the problem?
-215 means READ_ONLY, is it possible that you don't have write permissions to
your Mozilla/chrome directory as the user you're installing from?

See http://www.kairo.at/mozilla/download.html#PackInstall
Do you still see this with Mozilla 1.0?

If no, then we should resolve this somehow...
A more verbose error message would be a good idea. I could install the langpack
as root. But there should be really a possibility to do this locally for every
user. On a multi-user system you might have a lot of users speaking different
languages, so it would be great if they could do local installs of their
favourite langpacks using ~/.mozilla if the langpack is currently not available
as a globally accessible file in /usr/lib/mozilla.

Another problem: I could not change from english to german using a user that has
the Mail window as default window. I had to change this back to browser window.
May be the langinit routine is called at the wrong position.
OK, I'll extend the error message I have in my install script for ACCESS_DENIED
to be also showed for READ_ONLY. This message asks you to check if you have
write permissions to the Mozilla directory and to probably install as root /
system administrator.

You're right, it would be nice if the user could install this in the user's
profile directory, and that's also possible on other platforms than unix-based
ones. We're blocked by bug 109044 there :(

For the other problem, you should probably file a new bug report against the
Browser/Localization component.

As this seems to be working now (as root), and I did a change for future builds
so that users get warned, I'll mark this FIXED.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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