Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I've just had a look at FireFox about:plugins and I'm both worried and
> confused.
> No surprise there; it happens a lot when I peek under the covers. :o)
>
> There are two versions of the Java plugin listed, with the same
> libjavaplugin_oji.so
> filename. The latest is Java 1.5.0_04b05.
>
> There are two versions of Flash listed, also with one and the same filename:
> libflashplayer.so.
Don't know how this happend. You can check where they come from with:
$ locate libflashplayer.so
or without slocate installed
That produces
treat ~ # slocate libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/LinuxTools/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/Plugins/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/Gentoo/install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/plugins/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/LinuxTools/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/oldroot/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
treat ~ #
Some of these clearly have to do with old releases and distros. I should clean up
my act.
$ find / -name libflashplayer.so
This does somewhat the same:
treat ~ # find / -name libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/LinuxTools/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/Plugins/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/home/kevin/Gentoo/install_flash_player_7_linux/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/.netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/plugins/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/u01/RH_HOMES/kevin/LinuxTools/install_flash_player_6_linux/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/oldroot/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Perhaps you loaded an old version from /home/user/.mozilla/plugins ?
I have no idea what the history is. I've been doing this for a long time, and don't
keep records of everything that gets installed.
> Also: I would like the Adobe Acrobat plugin, but
> 1) I don't see it in 'eix' or 'emerge -s'.
> 2) The instructions for installing from an existing Acrobat install are
> not effective
> with the portage-installed acrobat.
I don't know what you're referring to here, but this should do the trick:
# mkdir -p /etc/portage/
# echo app-text/acroread nsplugin >> /etc/portage/package.use
# emerge -avt acroread
Thanks. I'll try that.
Christoph
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