Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla
Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. i am running the 0.8.1 packages from Kitame's site. Can anyone tell me how to get plugins to be recognized by Mozilla? [...] i then reran the mozilla postinst for good measure, though i don't think thats actually necessary for plugins, just componants and chrome. just run: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla.postinst as root. the plugin works fine. i do not run mozilla as root either ;-) perhaps the plugins your using are simply incompatible with mozilla? try the Free flash plugin instead of the proprietary one. I've copied the same plugin that worked with communicator so they work with mozilla (i'm using the 0.7-0progeny1), at least with the i386 architecture. I would like to try the free software one, especially with the couple of mac (a cube and a powerbook g3) where i've installed debian (thanks to Ethan's docs)... I think a search on freshmeat will do the trick =) i do wish mozilla would look for plugins in /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins so non-packaged plugins can be dropped there, All your /usr/lib are belong to dpkg afterall... this works for netscape i have the same plugin installed for netscape at /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins. (using debian netscape packages). Even if this is not the best solution, communicator looks for plugins in the ~/.netscape dir, but until now i was not able to replicate the behaviour with mozilla... Andrea
Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory: westek[westk]:/home/westk ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ total 976 -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff2363 Feb 15 21:39 ShockwaveFlash.class -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 947992 Feb 15 21:39 libflashplayer.so -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 38499 Mar 26 16:05 libnullplugin.so I am logged on and running X Mozilla as westk, and I'm a member of both the westk and staff groups. [...] Concerning the java-plugin - this is how it worked for me: I opened a document with java contents, to make Mozilla download and install the plugin automatically. BTW I needed to do this as root - permissions for my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins are: drwxr-xr-x3 11191uucp 4096 Apr 7 21:00 plugins and I *am* member of the uucp group... Now I realize that I didn't have the permission to create the necessary subdirectories as normal user... You definitely need write permission for /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. After download everything has been installed under the java2/ subdirectory. Additionally one needs to create a symlink like the following: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Finally you may chown westk.staff libjavaplugin_oji.so to get the permissions properly. Good luck, Andreas.
Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory: westek[westk]:/home/westk ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ total 976 -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff2363 Feb 15 21:39 ShockwaveFlash.class -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 947992 Feb 15 21:39 libflashplayer.so -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 38499 Mar 26 16:05 libnullplugin.so I am logged on and running X Mozilla as westk, and I'm a member of both the westk and staff groups. [...] Concerning the java-plugin - this is how it worked for me: I opened a document with java contents, to make Mozilla download and install the plugin automatically. BTW I needed to do this as root - permissions for my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins are: drwxr-xr-x3 11191uucp 4096 Apr 7 21:00 plugins and I *am* member of the uucp group... Now I realize that I didn't have the permission to create the necessary subdirectories as normal user... You definitely need write permission for /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. After download everything has been installed under the java2/ subdirectory. Additionally one needs to create a symlink like the following: cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Finally you may chown westk.staff libjavaplugin_oji.so to get the permissions properly. Good luck, Andreas.
How to add plugins to Mozilla
For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory: westek[westk]:/home/westk ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ total 976 -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff2363 Feb 15 21:39 ShockwaveFlash.class -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 947992 Feb 15 21:39 libflashplayer.so -rwxrwxr-x1 westkstaff 38499 Mar 26 16:05 libnullplugin.so I am logged on and running X Mozilla as westk, and I'm a member of both the westk and staff groups. When I do an about:plugins in the Mozilla URL field I get: *Installed plug-ins* Find more information about browser plug-ins at Netscape Netcenter http://home.netscape.com/plugins/index.html. *Default Plugin* File name: /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so The default plugin handles plugin data for mimetypes and extensions that are not specified and facilitates downloading of new plugins. Mime Type Description Suffixes Enabled * All types .* Yes I've tried putting the plugins in my home directory (~/.mozilla/.../plugins), and I've tried leaving the plugins in the Netscape plugin directory and simply making links to them from within the Mozilla plugin directory, and so far nothing has worked. I haven't been able to find anything definitive on the Debian mail archives, or a Dogpile search, or on the Mozilla site. Can anyone tell me how to get plugins to be recognized by Mozilla? Thanks!
Re: How to add plugins to Mozilla
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla. Nothing I've done seems to work. I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614. i am running the 0.8.1 packages from Kitame's site. Can anyone tell me how to get plugins to be recognized by Mozilla? well i installed the flash plugin (the Free Software version, not the proprietary shockwave) by simply copying the file to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins total 324 -rw-r--r--1 root root13656 Apr 17 20:56 libnullplugin.so -rw-r--r--1 root root 310591 Mar 22 15:57 npflash.so [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Apr 17 21:07 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins i then reran the mozilla postinst for good measure, though i don't think thats actually necessary for plugins, just componants and chrome. just run: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla.postinst as root. the plugin works fine. i do not run mozilla as root either ;-) perhaps the plugins your using are simply incompatible with mozilla? try the Free flash plugin instead of the proprietary one. i do wish mozilla would look for plugins in /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins so non-packaged plugins can be dropped there, All your /usr/lib are belong to dpkg afterall... this works for netscape i have the same plugin installed for netscape at /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins. (using debian netscape packages). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpWw3h0K0Pfs.pgp Description: PGP signature
