On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 11:39 -0700, Harold Michels wrote: > I am running Fedora Core 6. > > Core 6, coming out of the box runs Firefox version 1.5 > I up graded it to version 2.0 > This was early days in my use of the system. > I did not know how to upgrade properly, and probably still do not as I > have > to let yum do it automagically. > I found out afterward that Fedora does not like and is not supporting > version 2.0. > I don't know exactly where the new version of Firefox went to. RPM put > it > somewhere. > I have managed to set up shortcuts to it that work to launch version > MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:2.0.0.3. > When the system launches the program it launches Firefox version1.5. > Into this mix I am trying to get Java plugin to run in Firefox > MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:2.0.0.3. > Per the web site I am supposed to create a symbolic link to the > java .so file > "libjavaplugin_oji.so" > This is in the download directory which in turn is in my home > directory. > > It is there because I do not understand how Linux handles the files as > to > where they are supposed to be stored. In spite of many hours of > research, I > still find my self very ignorant. It almost looks like it does not > matter. > If this the case I stand astonished. > > At any rate, per instructions from Mozilla I created a symbolic link > to the > target file and put it in the .mozilla/plugins folder. After > restarting > Firefox, I still do not find java in my plugin window "Tools | Add > Ins" > > I can see many things I may have done wrong, but I am not sure how to > fix them. > > I would like to get Java running so I can participate in Alan's > Robocode demo. ---- I would presume that you installed as a user rather than as root. Probably the best way to figure out what is actually installed is to run some tests as user and then as root... as user... [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ which firefox /usr/bin/firefox [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/firefox firefox-1.5.0.12-1.fc5 (yes, I'm still on Fedora Core 5 on my home system) now it's possible - especially if you installed via a 'tarball', that you could have a bin directory in your $HOME directory and installed a newer version of firefox there which *might* be revealed by the above 'which firefox' command still as user... [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ ls -l .mozilla/plugins total 2068 -rw-r--r-- 1 craig craig 856 May 20 2004 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 craig craig 2096844 May 20 2004 libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 craig craig 51 May 28 2006 libnpsoplugin.so -> /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/libnpsoplugin.so (oops...that's why flash is a bit wacky...I've still got a very old flashplayer plugin in my user directory...) OK some clean up... [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ rm .mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ rm .mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt which version of firefox? # /usr/bin/firefox -v Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org I don't mind 1.5.0.x at this point but anyway... Now, I'm going to become root... [craig@lin-workstation ~]$ su - Password: [root@lin-workstation ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ total 6132 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Aug 19 18:10 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 May 27 2006 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-qt.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-rm.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281876 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 28 2007 mplayerplug-in.xpt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 May 28 2006 nphelix.so -> /opt/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 May 28 2006 nphelix.xpt -> /opt/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4750331 Nov 6 2005 nppdf.so Thus I can have plugins installed as a user in my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory or for all users on this system in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory So now I've got to figure out where the libjavaplugin is located... # update slocate database [root@lin-workstation ~]# updatedb # locate the java plugin for mozilla/firefox [root@lin-workstation ~]# locate libjavaplugin_oji.so # note, I've got an older version of Java installed...your version will likely # be a lot newer which is why I am telling you to use the 'locate' to find # the java plugin that you have installed... # this is the one I want /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so # this is not the one I want unless I want to run an old version of mozilla that # was compiled with gcc-2.96 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so # finally, create the link [root@lin-workstation ~]# ln -s \ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ Finally...the way to add packaging for Fedora Core 6/7 is to at least add livna repository... Fedora Core 6... rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm Fedora 7 rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm once you have the livna repository installed, adding the 'non-free' packages is pretty simple... # install MPlayer both as Firefox plugin and standalone player with codecs... yum install mplayer mplayerplug-in mplayer-gui mplayer-fonts # install xmms codecs... yum install xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 If you have an ATI or nVidia video card, you would definitely want to have the livna repository installed because they have the proprietary, binary only drivers all pre-packaged for you. Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss