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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emergeing Firefox 35.0 breaks Ghostery ... fixable?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:19:51
Message-Id: 54B4B8F3.2090608@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emergeing Firefox 35.0 breaks Ghostery ... fixable? by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On 13/01/2015 07:53, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > emergeing Firefox 35.0 runs without problems...but:
5 > The plugin Ghostery (blocks tracker) fails to start
6 > and a reinstallations ends with this error message
7 > (popup):
8 >
9 > "Ghostery cannot be installed because Firefox cannot
10 > modify the needed file."
11 >
12 > Is this a proble of the plugin, a wrong permissions
13 > setting via emerge/ebuild or a problem of my Gentoo
14 > box?
15 >
16 > How can I fix it -- a downgrade to the previous version
17 > (34.0.5-r1) is not possible, since one had decided to
18 > remove that version from the ebuilds ???
19
20
21 If you can't get the plugin to work, you *can* downgrade, the ebuild is
22 in the gentoo attic along with every other ebuild ever published in the
23 tree :-)
24
25
26 --
27 Alan McKinnon
28 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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