Frederic Crozat wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:59:24 +0100, Tech At Mathco Dot Com wrote:
>
>>I just noticed that you have to be root to be able to install the Java
>>plugin.
>>
>>Is this really correct?
>>
>>I tried this a few times with a regular user and it shows unsuccessfull
>>each time.
>>
>
>Install jre package from sun and everything will work without any
>problem..
>
>I can't do anything for these "xpi" files, since they are done by
>Netscape.
>
I found that the xpi packages themselves work really nicely. It is just
that they try to install in a part of the system requiring root
permission rather than in user space. I downloaded them (java and
spellcheck) manually via ftp and then installed them offline with
Mozilla (by pointing the browser to them) with no problem. Hopefully
the Mozilla people are working on a solution for this. I wonder how
Netscape 6.2 gets around this. By some suid root program? Just
thinking about it gives me the chills. I use Mozilla instead of
Netscape in part because I fear that Netscape = IE on Linux.
