On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Someone <[email protected]> wrote: > and firefox 3.6.4 on CentOS 5.5 to work together. > > Where is the global plugins directory anyway? > > Firefox should have a way to tell you. > > An annoyance of mine is that automatic install never seems to work in a > Linux environment, but it always seems to work under Windows. The > firefox developers really should address this seemingly anti Linux > aspect of the browser. > > I installed Java 6 runtime environment update 21 I think. > > [plu...@goose ~]$ rpm -q jre > jre-1.6.0_21-fcs > > I found /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and decided to change that > to a virtual link. I pointed it at /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins > which I created manually. I also decided to move extensions to > firefox-addons and create a virtual link. I found an empty > firefox-3.0.5 and an empty firefox-3.0.6 directory, so I removed them. > I searched the whole hard drive for plugins and didn't find any other > candidates for the global firefox directory. Again though, firefox > itself should be able to tell me. > > The only instructions I can find say to make a symbolic link to the > correct libjavaplugin_oji.so in the global or your local mozilla plugins > directory. I've done this, but when I do about:plugins in firefox I > don't see java. Sun's java test fails. > The lib link is step one.
The centos rpm's don't seem to but the links in the right place for firefox to find. They use alternatives for providing this linkage but if you use the sun rpm's they do it wrong. The sun's rpm override the alternatives redirection. Beside the java link see if you have a javaws link. Also if these links are not on in firefox directory tree or on your search path then things fail. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
