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On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Anne et Bertrand wrote: > Can someone explain why, with Mandrake, I encounter failures when doing > symbolic links ? > > Here is an example to explain the situation : > I wanted to do a symlink from the J2RE plugin into > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > > When I do, as root : > "cd /usr/local/j2re/plugins/ppc/mozilla/" > "ln -s javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/" > I just tried a similar command on a completely different system, and get the same behavior, and in reality, I don't see why the above should work. If you did: ln -s /usr/local/j2re/plugins/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ That should work. > The link is reported in red (broken but pointing to the right place) > with "ls -l" and when I launch galeon, I've got the message : > If it's in red, it's not pointing to the right place, I bet you see something like: javaplugin_oji.so -> javaplugin_oji.so Which isn't terribly useful. > > But when I first cd to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and then do: > "ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/ppc/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so ." > > then the link is correct and the java works in galeon. > That is the way I'm accustomed to making links, or the other method listed above. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
