Solved Automated installation in Chrome on linux, "Must provide regId"

Discussion in 'Join' started by qpkorr, Jul 13, 2020.

  1. qpkorr

    qpkorr New Member

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    Hi,
    I've had nothing but wonderful support here, so thought I'd ask another question.
    I'm trying to automate my linux installation process - and there's one chrome extension I want to install automatically, Join. I've followed the guide here
    https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/external_extensions
    and created a file
    Code (Text):
    #; cat /usr/share/google-chrome/extensions/flejfacjooompmliegamfbpjjdlhokhj.json
    {
      "external_update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx"
    }
    and the extension gets installed. But when I open it, it's blank, and if I go to the Diagnostics | Test, on the second line, it has the error about "Must provide regId". I tried moving the GCM Store directory aside as suggested elsewhere, to no avail - any other ideas?
    One clue might be that when I install manually from the webstore, I get a warning that another machine is already using the name Chrome so I rename this instance. Another clue is the error I get when running the diagnostic test - Unknown error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'where' of null.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks very much,
    John
     
    Last edited: Jul 13, 2020
  2. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Hi. When you first install Join it asks you to sign in too. Maybe you can't install it automatically because of that?
     
  3. qpkorr

    qpkorr New Member

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    Hi - thanks. I'm not sure what the problem was exactly - but I just did a clean install of ubuntu, chrome, and join using the above method - and this time it worked. It asked me to sign in as you say, but this time it worked. The previous time when it didn't... I can only guess. This time, I'd not yet signed into google at all, the previous time I had - I think. Ah well - if I can't reproduce it any more, I declare myself useless on the topic. Case closed :)
     
  4. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Glad to hear that! :)
     
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