[TriLUG] Mozilla plug-ins

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 16:17, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> Hmmmm, well when I try about:plugins I get:
> 
> 
> Default Plugin
> 
>      File name: 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


If all you have is the null plugin then, despite whatever you've done,
mozilla doesn't have the plugins properly installed.


> ls -al
> total 180
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  5 17:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Jun 24 14:54 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           40 Jun 24 10:34 
> libflashplayer.so -> ../../netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           60 Sep  5 17:10 
> libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> /usr/java/jre1.3.1_04/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        24422 May 13 21:28 libnullplugin.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           33 Jun 24 10:40 plugger.so -> 
> ../../netscape/plugins/plugger.so
> -r--r--r--    1 root     root         4139 Sep  5 17:13 raclass.zip
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       131580 Sep  5 17:12 rpnp.so
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         2363 Sep  5 17:10 ShockwaveFlash.class
> 
> and my stuff still doesn't work.  Why would the plugins be in the 
> correct folder, but not "installed" when I do the about:plugins?


Which directory?  If you're using Moz 1.0 or later, you may have put the
plugin stuff in the old directory:

  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

when it should be in the *new* directory:

  /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0/plugins

for the 1.0 release.

hth,
Ed


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