Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sun-java6-plugin
/usr/bin/mozilla/plugins is the 'canonical' location for where mozilla firefox/seamonkey look for plugins. for reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/firefox_3.5_for_developers states "Firefox now looks for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins on Linux, as well as the previously supported locations.", which also applies to seamonkey2. all other plugins place a symlink there through update-alternatives. sun-java6-plugin /used/ to do this as well, but for whatever reason this was taken out of the package for karmic (and also the lucid package). this causes some problems: seamonkey fails to detect java plugin, and problems on 64bit systems. here are the related bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/269136 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/327088 the fix is simple: line 6 of the postinst script should read: browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons mozilla" then the alternative would be installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, along with the xulrunner dir. currently, the workaround is to manually create the symlink, or, more properly, to manually install an alternative there with the following command: sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so 50 However, this should be fixed and the postinst script should install the link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, just like all other plugins do. don't know if the 'policy' will allow this fix to come through as a karmic update, but this definitely should be fixed for lucid. note also that this did /not/ use to be a problem on jaunty and earlier, where the postinst installed the alternative in a number of locations: browser_dirs="xulrunner-addons firefox iceape iceweasel mozilla midbrowser xulrunner" I don't know why these were taken out in karmic, but they shouldn't have been - at the very least, the 'mozilla' one shouldn't have. ** Affects: sun-java6 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- sun-java6-plugin does not create symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509727 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
