307012 - Installation fails following README (easily corrected) - Fedora Core 4

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Bob McKay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729

Installation following the README file doesn't work under my Fedora Core 4
system. The README says to place the installer in the mozilla directory. If this
is done, the installation fails, giving an error that the mozilla directory must
contain only an earlier copy of mozilla. Moving the mozilla installer to another
directory (ie emptying the mozilla directory) fixed the problem. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install fedora core 4
2.install mozilla as per README
3.

Actual Results:  
Failed objecting to the presence of non-Mozilla files in the directory

Expected Results:  
I don't think this really needs to be treated as a bug (my best guess is that it
is a problem with interaction with SELinux, possibly too complex to fix because
it may depend on particular SELinux configurations, and perhaps best documented
around). Just mention in the README that if this failure occurs, moving the
installer outside the mozilla directory may fix it.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

what directory did you attempt to install to?  /usr/local/mozilla?  what was
there before you installed?

Comment 2

[Bob McKay]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what directory did you attempt to install to?  /usr/local/mozilla?  what was
> there before you installed?

Sorry, yes I used /usr/local/mozilla (after initially trying /usr/local/Mozilla, as mentioned in another
documentation bug report). It was a brand new directory, only the untarred installation files were there,
I removed even the tar file to make sure it wasn't that that was causing the problem (I used gunzip 
followed by tar -xvf ; I've been around long enough, that's the way I can readily remember to do it)

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

This doesn't apply to current trunk builds, which have no installer.

Bob, are you seeing the same error with a current Sm 1.1.8 README and installer?

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

> only the untarred installation files were there

Nothing should be there.  You don't really want to untar the installation files to the path you want to install to.  Extract them to a mozilla/seamonkey directory in a temporary location.

resolving INVALID -- not a bug

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

/me rereads comment 0

> Just mention in the README that if this failure occurs, moving the
> installer outside the mozilla directory may fix it.

Sorry, yes.  This is by design (not something like SELinux).  The README says

1. Create a directory named seamonkey(mozilla)

We weren't trying to imply that you'd extract to the eventual install path.

Comment 6

[Bob McKay]

Ooops my bad (sorry, this was three years ago, I'm now running an F8 installation, so I can't check what caused me to think I needed to unpack to the installation directory).