Javascript interpreter ---------------------- Plowshare modules often need to execute javascript in order to interact with file hosting websites. Since depending on how you manage the modules they might be downloaded from the Internet and updated semi-automatically, there are security implications to executing javascript from these untrusted modules. As a precaution javascript support is disabled by default in the Debian package of plowshare. You can re-enable it by setting the environment variable: PLOWSHARE_DEBIAN_JS=yes You will also need to have an executable for a javascript interpreter installed such as from the packages libmozjs-24-bin or rhino. If necessary you can tell plowshare where to find the executable by using the environment variable PLOWSHARE_JS which defaults to the value 'js'. Managing modules ---------------- Plowshare includes a tool, plowmod, which lets you manually update the modules. There was previously a plowshare-modules package in the Debian archives, but the upstream preferences is to rely on plowmod rather than a distro package.