164804 - root permissions required for installing language packs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, defect)

Description

[Sergei Haller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Root permissons required for installing language packs.

Why don't install them into users ~/.mozilla directory?

install into the main directory (/usr/local/mozilla or whatever) only if mozilla
is run by root.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Installation notes say that you need write permission to Mozilla application
directory: http://mozilla.kairo.at/download.php#PackInstall

We're blocked by bug 109044, see also bug 148986 Comment #4

Comment 2

[Sergei Haller]

yes, the second paragraph of "bug 148986 Comment #4" is what I had in mind.

you can install themes as a user in ~/.mozilla So why shouldn't this be possible
for all other kind of installations like language packs etc. 

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

See bug 109044 - if we allow this, the user gets an error, and we don't know why.
I hope this issue will be resolved some time. When it is, we'll do exactly as
you tell (btw, on Windows we already do this: try to write/install in Mozilla
application directory, if we fail, install into profile directory).

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

This was fixed by not using the workaround for bug 109044 any more. It appears
to work almost always now without it.

Comment 5

[Michael Stadlbauer]

verifying older bugs