VMware Remote Console Plug-in 2.5.0.100265 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.1.

Bug #249028 reported by Wayne-O
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Expired
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I was using Firefox 3.0 to access VMWare 2.0. It was working fine until Firefox was updated to 3.0.1. Not when I try to access the console it wants to reinstall the Plug-in when it does I receive an Error:

VMware Remote Console Plug-in 2.5.0.100265 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.1.

Do you know of a solution?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 16 08:39:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: vsock nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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Wayne-O (wynshawhan) wrote :
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PtY (peti-szladovics) wrote :

Dear Wayne,

I think, it isn't a bug, mainly not an ubuntu and/or firefox bug, neither a vmware bug.
There is an install.rdf file in extension-file (jar/xpi), wich is contains the informations about the destination requirements (e.g. minimum/maximum version number of firefox versions).
In the xpi file what is distributed by VMware the limits are 1.0 as minimum, and 3.0 as maximum, so, you need the edit it, before install into your browser.
Find the following file(s) on your vmware host:
/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-<VERSION>/webapps/ui/plugin/vmware-vmrc-linux-x86.xpi
or /usr/lib64/... or vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi.
Expand it (them) with unzip into a temporary directory, or open it (them) with midnight commander.
Find the install.rdf file in the root of this directory, and edit it with your favorite editor.
Modify the <em:maxVersion>3.0.0.*</em:maxVersion> line to <em:maxVersion>3.0.5.*</em:maxVersion>.
Save the file, and repack this directory with zip into a new archive with same name and extension (e.g. vmware-vmrc-linux-x64.xpi). (or just close the opened archive by mc)
Replace the original file with the new one (of course you need to back up the original versions).
After this step you can reinstall the extension through vmware UI without any problem.

Cheers, Peter

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Michael A. Phillips (maphilli14) wrote :

Works like champ! Thanks!

Mike

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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PtY (peti-szladovics) wrote : Re: [Bug 249028] Re: VMware Remote Console Plug-in 2.5.0.100265 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.1.

Pedro Villavicencio írta:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete

Dear Perdro,

This issue not reported by me. I just did a notice for the reporter
person about it isn't a bug, only a simple resolvable plugin version
restriction.

Just drop this issue.

Thanks,

Peter

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote :

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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