Bug#656578: Can't install extensions from gnome site (exception in /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js)

[Michael Biebl]

On 20.01.2012 23:41, Mat Cantin wrote:
> 
> I've been experiencing the same behaviour with the  
> extensions.gnome.org site for the past few weeks. Looking through my  
> .xsession.error log I found similar JS ERROR lines, except that the  
> "stack" line had an error about unzip.
> 
> Installing unzip fixed the problem for me (can't remember why I  
> removed this package). Seems to me that unzip should be part of the  
> gnome-shell dependencies though, since re-installing gnome-shell  
> didn't catch it.

Indeed, thanks for the bug report.

The relevant code in gotExtensionZipFile() is:

    let [success, pid] = GLib.spawn_async(null,
                                          ['unzip', '-uod', dir.get_path(), '--', tmpzip],
                                          null,
                                          GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH | GLib.SpawnFlags.DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD,
                                          null);


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