[solved] Preferred way to install & update Gnome extensions

Hello there,
What is the preferred way to install and update Gnome extensions?
Do you
a) install the respective extensions from the AUR
b) or do you use the https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ page for that purpose?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both ways?
Thanks!
Last edited by orschiro (2013-06-13 10:10:48)

Unia wrote:
Thaodan wrote:Why add an extra interface if your package manager already does the job?
Because if you use the AUR, you depend on the respective maintainers to update their PKGBUILD when a newer version is out. If they don't update, you will not receive a notification that a newer version of your extension is available.
With extensions.gnome.org/local, you do not depend on anyone else. It has no harm to your system to manage extensions like this; they get installed for just your user (in $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions).
I know which method I prefer.
Hmm true, despite the bad effects of using the AUR prefer to use it cause I don't like to add extra interfaces for every app. But I think that is just an opinion...

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When checking the extensions.log file I found the following three lines repeated a number of times on each Firefox start:
2010-08-12 17:25:25 - safeInstallOperation: file extraction failed, rolling back file moves and aborting installation.
2010-08-12 17:25:25 - ExtensionManager:_finishOperations - failure, catching exception - lineno: 1608 - file: undefined - [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsIFile.permissions]" nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2.8/components/nsExtensionManager.js :: safeInstallOperation :: line 1608" data: no]

After some trial and error, I discover that my instance of this problem was caused by having the profile on a FAT drive (for ease of dual boot with Windows). FAT does not allow user permissions so any attempt to do chown fails. Copying the profile to my Linux filesystem in a temporary directory, changing ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini to point to it and doing the install worked perfectly. I then copied all the files in the profile directory back again and I now have the add-on installed.
Something of a work-around, but at least it worked

[solved] Preferred way to install & update Gnome extensions

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