Installing extensions from extesions.gnome.org

kjjohny1991 · 06-07-2012, 03:32 AM

Installing extensions in fedora16 was fine.But after installing Fedora17 nothing works...On turning "ON" no download pops up
tried with both chrome and firefox

Any help
thanks

Z0K4 · 06-07-2012, 03:51 AM

Extensions are probably not up to date with the gnome-shell version... Either wait a few days/weeks or reinstall Fedora 16. I would suggest you to wait until extensions are up to date!

Best regards.

kjjohny1991 · 06-07-2012, 08:00 AM

One of my friends installed the same fedora and he did not had any problems in installation

So i dont think it is because the extensions are not up to date...
Do i need to have any firefox plugin or something like that to install?

Z0K4 · 06-07-2012, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjjohny1991

Do i need to have any firefox plugin or something like that to install?

No, you don't need any plugin to install extensions. Did you disable some of the features Firefox comes with? Have you tried reinstalling Firefox?

kjjohny1991 · 06-07-2012, 08:19 AM

tried re installing firefox as well but did not help

kjjohny1991 · 06-07-2012, 08:35 AM

while trying to install manually it returns error
while using make or make install -zip
Makefile:485: *** missing separator. Stop.
so i cannot install that way

Z0K4 · 06-07-2012, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjjohny1991

tried re installing firefox as well but did not help

Have you done any modifications to gnome? If you have, you could try setting it to default with the following command (NOTE: this will erase all of your personal settings). Press Alt + F2 ant type:

Code:

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity .cache .dbus .dmrc .mission-control .thumbnails ~/.config/dconf/user ~.compiz*

There is a big chance this will not work but it's worth of trying.
After you do this, log out and log back in... Now go to extensions.gnome.org and try few of those extensions

God luck!

Z0K4 · 06-07-2012, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjjohny1991

while trying to install manually it returns error
while using make or make install -zip
Makefile:485: *** missing separator. Stop.
so i cannot install that way

According to this you didn't configure the makefile correctly...

kjjohny1991 · 06-07-2012, 09:35 AM

Code:

(gnome-settings-daemon:1183): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_boolean: assertion `g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_BOOLEAN)' failed
mouse-plugin-Message: checking on device Virtual core XTEST pointer

(gnome-settings-daemon:1183): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_boolean: assertion `g_variant_is_of_type (value, G_VARIANT_TYPE_BOOLEAN)' failed
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: TypeError: info is null
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '83'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object _private_Soup_SessionAsync],[object _private_Soup_Message])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:83
"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"info is null"'

was the last line of my .xsession-errors

Z0K4 · 06-07-2012, 09:57 AM

I'm not sure where, but I've already seen those kind of errors, and I believe that it had something to do with the 'unzip' package... Try to install it (unzip) and see if it helps.

kjjohny1991 · 06-08-2012, 07:23 AM

Its fine now.Earlier i was using net under a proxy server.when i tried without that it worked fine.
Thanks for your help.