Re: manually installing mozilla plugins
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 10:17:51AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > > Just load it into mozilla. i.e., load the URL
> > >
> > > file:///path/to/jre.xpi
> > >
> > > Mozilla will offer to install the plugin, and do a bunch of stuff then
> > > hang. Then, you get out of mozilla, cd to the plugins directory and
> > >
> > > ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
> >
> > I tried this with the flash plugin, but I can't get mozilla to recognize
> > it.
>
>
> In the case of the java plugin (java.xpi), manual installation is a
> pretty simple matter. Put java.xpi in $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins and unzip
> it (with the 'unzip' command). Rename the resulting directory to
> 'java2'. I don't know if that's actually necessary, but that's what the
> mozilla auto-installer does. Then run
> ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
> Java will now work.
heathen:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 7 00:34 java2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Mar 7 00:46 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13752 Mar 3 08:29 libnullplugin.so
This did not work for me at all. After I do this, I quit and reload
Mozilla, and access to the java-page (A local page that loads mindterm
SSH for me) and I'm still told that I need the java plugin.
I also am unable to load the java console.
-- Ferret
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