Mike MacCana wrote:
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > Dear friends:
> > I installed the brand-new Netscape 6.01 in a separate directory so I now
> > have both Netscape 4.76 and Netscape 6. My problem is with Flash. I
> > downloaded the latest Macromedia Flash 5.0 when instructed to do so in
> > Netscape 6. I installed it in /home/sher/.netscape/plugins as well as
> > /usr/lib/netscape/plugins.
> > 1)
> > [sher@sher sher]$ cd .netscape/plugins
> > [sher@sher plugins]$ ls
> > ShockwaveFlash.class libflashplayer.so raclass.zip rpnp.so*
> > [sher@sher plugins]$
> > 2)
> > [sher@sher plugins]$ cd /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
> > [sher@sher plugins]$ ls
> > ShockwaveFlash.class* libflashplayer.so* nppdf.so* plugger.so*
> > rpnp.so*
> > cpPack1.jar* libnullplugin.so* nsdejavu.so@ raclass.zip
> > [sher@sher plugins]$
> > The new Flash is recognized by Netscape 4.76 but NOT by Netscape 6. I
> > tested Flash 5 at http://www.flash.com It works fine in Netscape 4.76
> > but not in Netscape 6. I checked in N6 by typing in the location
> > bar: "about:plugins" (without the quotes, of course) as advised by the
> > Readme file. The plugin list for Netscape 6 shows the java plugins and
> > the Netscape default plugin but NOT the Flash plugin.
> > Is this because I continue to use Netscape 4.76? If so, how can I get
> > Netscape6 to recognize and use Flash 5?
> Netscape 6 installs (as good self compiled packages do) in /usr/local. So
> the place to put the plugins in /usr/local/netscape/plugins. Copy flash
> there, and while you`re at it, copy any files /usr/lib/netscape/plugins into
> /usr/local/netscape/plugins (don't copy over any files that are
> alreadythere).
Why would you cp? Is there something wrong with ln in this situation?
This isn't windoze you know. You shouldn't need multiple copies of the
same application files.
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