[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen staff client on Ubuntu 12.04

[Howell, Lynda]

Okay, I figured it out.  It turns out that xulrunner is a bash script, so I have to say "bash xulrunner --register-global" to install it, and "bash xulrunner application.ini" to run the staff client.

I don't know if there's something odd in my setup or if this would have been obvious to someone who knows what they're doing.  But I didn't!

Lynda.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howell, Lynda
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:18 AM
> To: 'open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org'
> Subject: Evergreen staff client on Ubuntu 12.04
> 
> I'm new to Evergreen, testing it out as a possible replacement for our current
> ILS.  I'm trying to get Evergreen 2.2 installed on a stand-alone PC running
> Ubuntu 12.04, and have run into a problem running the staff client.
> 
> The staff client requires XULRunner, which isn't available from the official
> Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.  I tried downloading XULRunner 3.6.28 from
> Mozilla and following the installation instructions at
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_1.9.2_Release_Notes#Linux,
> but when I get to the step of registering XULRunner, I get the same
> "xulrunner: command not found" message I'm trying to install it to fix.  I'm
> not familiar enough with Ubuntu to know what I'm doing wrong or what to
> try next.
> 
> I've found several references in older Evergreen documentation to
> XULRunner being installed by default with Firefox, but I think that's on earlier
> versions of Ubuntu.  I'm running Firefox 13.0.1.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thanks a lot.
> 
> Lynda Howell.
> 
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