On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:02 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:22:01 -0500, Claude Jones
<claude_jones(a)levitjames.com> wrote:
> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> ||| If you are using Firefox, you would want to put the link in
> ||| the "firefox/plugins" directory... not mozilla's plugin
> ||| directory.
> |
> | OK, makes sense. The closest I could find to "firefox/plugins"
> | was the directory /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1. I created a
> | subdirectory "plugins" and put the link
> | to /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> | there. I still keep getting these perplexing firefox messages
> | (now from several webpages.)
> |
>
> You got close. Look again and see if you see
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins
> That's where you have to put the link... I just went through this.
>
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
>
Check /usr/lib and verify that you only have the one firefox
directory. Various repositories create directories in the form of
"firefox" or "firefox-xx.x". You may have Firefox installed in
multiple locations.
I seem to have "firefox-1.0" and "firefox-0.10.1" directories
under /usr/lib although the Firefox version that's executing is 1.0. Do
I need to uninstall anything in order to get this to work.
If there is only the firefox-0.10.1 directory, verify that the
symbolic links within plugins are valid:
# cd /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/plugins
# ls -l
There should be no red-colored text present. If there are, the link
associated with that file is broken. Use "find" or "locate" to
determine where file for broken link resides.
This may be my problem -- all the links I've created are in red. Say
I'm in a directory like "/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32"
-- I then (as root) execute the command "ln -s
libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins". The link appears in
the right directory but it's highlighted in red and flashing. The only
other thing in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins directory is the file
(in green) "libnullplugin.so".
-- Kam Leo