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> Best whishes
and to you! :)
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> On 12/21/06, Les Gray <lgray@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just built myself a 64-bit AMD X2 desktop system and decided I'd
give
>> a 64-bit distro a shot. On my recently ebayed last system I was using
>> 32-bit Sarge for just over a year and loved it. I am now happily
running
>> Etch RC1 64-bit.
>>
>> Happily? Well, almost....
>>
>> For the relatively few 32-bit programs I need/want to run, I opted
for
>> the chroot method (as described in the Debian AMD64 HOWTO). I
installed
>> Firefox 2.0.0.1 by unpacking the archive from getfirefox.com into
>> /usr/local in my chroot (I prefer not to use Debian-packaged firefox
>> because I've found it to be more crash prone). The browser starts up
>> without a hitch.
>>
>> But, for the life of me, I am unable to create any symlinks in
>> /usr/local/firefox/plugins to the currently installed plugins in the
>> chroot (acrobat and java, atm). Each time I try, it results in a
>> dangling symlink (and, yes, I am issuing each command from within the
>> chroot).
>>
>> I thought it might be a permissions issue (even though I didn't
change
>> any), so I tried unpacking firefox in bind-mounted /home/<user>. No
>> change.
>>
>> I also tried 3 methods of installing Sun Java - from the Debian repo,
>> from sun.com, and building locally using java-package. Again, no
ability
>> to symlink to the java plugin.
>>
>> I don't get it. I can create symlinks to any other files/dirs in the
>> chroot, just not browser plugins?? I have read permissions on all
>> elements of the plugin path, and write permissions to where I want to
>> create the symlink. I've also tried copying the plugins to the
firefox
>> plugins directory, but firefox still doesn't register them.
>>
>> Curiously (or not?), I don't have this problem if I use the firefox
>> version from Debian. It's just 'getfirefox'. I don't want to use the
>> Debian version, though, or another browser. I may use Iceweasel from
>> unstable as a last resort, but I really shouldn't be having this
problem
>> in the first place.
>>
>> Any clues? It's the first time I've used chroot, so if I am
overlooking
>> something simple, my apologies :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Les
>>
>>
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