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Packaged firefox add-on doesn't work, what could be the reason?

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I've created a PKGBUILD for the foxreplace firefox add-on but after installing the package the add-on isn't loaded and I have no clue why.Can somebody have a look at this PKGBUILD if I made something wrong?The add-on works when Installed through the add-on manager. That PKGBUILD was used as a template for the nogoogle PKGBUILD which works perfectly. slopjong https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=50746 2012-11-30T16:07:40Z (HowTos)

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Awebb wrote:It's in the PKGBUILD. Saying that you install a package from the AUR without even looking at the PKGBUILD usually confronts you with us zaelots, telling you that you should at least check the PKGBUILD for obvious problems before installing the package.

No offense, but that's horrible.Let's have some Arch-like simplicity here:Depend on gvim, because that's the official package. Put some explanatory comments in the PKGBUILD about vim-inteprete, advising users of that package to edit the vim-slimv PKGBUILD as required.

tomk https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=1822

2012-05-14T15:51:11Z

Can't upload package 9 weeks 5 days ago

Aur is known to have trouble with split pacakges, and it looks like you have not followed exactly the workaround splittest example pkgbuild that works.compare your pkgbase , pkgname and true && pkgname lines with those in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sp/s … t/PKGBUILD .

Lone_Wolf https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=4504

2013-04-11T11:34:47Z

karol wrote:I get the same error, the path is wrong:sed: can't read /var/abs//vim/vim/PKGBUILD: No such file or directoryThe correct one is /var/abs/extra/vim/PKGBUILD.I also found https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/26573 and it looks like srcpac is practically unmaintained.Thanks.Maybe it should be removed from extra:)

JasonZhang https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=67952

2013

The problem was bison-2.6. I've just chucked together a PKGBUILD for netbee here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62293Tested on x86_64, building of12softswitch. The PKGBUILD is pretty much pieced together from some of the tips on that github repository. Feedback welcome.

switchcade https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=63217

2012-08-26T03:16:19Z

ipset installation issue 37 weeks 3 days ago

One of the comments on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25716 says niki wrote:Could the conflict/provides/replaces lines for ipset be removed from the package, as ipset is no longer included.You can try editing the PKGBUILD and removing the conflict: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xt/x … s/PKGBUILD

karol https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=25522

2012-09-29T20:38:29Z

Army wrote:Just one thing, in your PKGBUILD the md5sum of open seems to be wrong.Funny, the open should be symlink to the xdg-open. The PKGBUILD certainly works here.

Cloudef https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=43271

2012-07-03T15:30:33Z

anonymous_user wrote:2010-05-28 07:38 is the date that the PKGBUILD was last updated. It doesn't mean that the code is of that date. Similarly with the oss package. Version 4.2_2007 was released a while ago, but the package have been updated with package fixes or similar:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgbuild#pkgrelOk, I understand now.

Try csound-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48830 but see the comments - problems again.You can see how to deal with git in the PKGBUILD.Another way is to instal binary package from an unofficial user repository.