Mozilla-1.4.2 UP2DATEd thru Red Hat Alert
Chris A Czerwinski
chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca
Thu Mar 18 21:13:54 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:51, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:57, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> >>Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 13:24, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I have just finished Up2Date thru Red Hat Alert
> >>>>>which upgraded my Mozilla to mozilla-1.4.2-0.9.0
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I have now lost my mozilla plugins e.g. flashplayer, libflashplayer.
> >>>>>I think I have lost my java link - as I now get an Error
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-------------------------------
> >>>>>JavaScript Application
> >>>>>
> >>>>>! Error-Unregistered OpenCube DHTML Effect - (www.opencube.com)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-------------------------------
> >>>>>
> >>>>>What and How do I get them back?
> >>>>
> >>>>Mozilla is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-(version). Plugins are
> >>>>installed in the "/plugins" directory of that location. To get your
> >>>>plugins back, copy the stuff from the the previous version's /plugins
> >>>>directory. I can't tell you the exact name of the directory as I don't
> >>>>know what the previous version of Mozilla was, but the command
> >>>>"ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*" will show you the names involved.
> >>>>
> >>>>Note that the previous version's java stuff is most likely a symbolic
> >>>>link to the Java runtime interpreter. Make the same link in the new
> >>>>Mozilla's /plugins. Do NOT copy that link (that'll put a copy of the
> >>>>interpreter in /plugins which won't work right), but do the symlink
> >>>>manually. In my case, that's
> >>>>
> >>>> # cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> >>>> # ln -s
> >>>>/usr/local/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >>>>libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >>>>
> >>>>The other stuff is safe to copy.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Copied the files to /usr/lob/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
> >>> and it shows up in Mozilla -> help -> Plugins so that works
> >>>
> >>>However I made the link in there also /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
> >>> when should have made it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> >>>
> >>>so what is the command to remove the symbolic link from
> >>> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
> >>>and then I will reapply in
> >>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> >>
> >>Well, generally /usr/lib/mozilla is a symbolic link to the current
> >>version of Mozilla. If you did the "ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*", you
> >>may have seen this at the end of one of the lines:
> >>
> >> /usr/lib/mozilla -> mozilla-1.4.2
> >>
> >>If so, you don't need to change anything as putting the link in
> >>mozilla-1.4.2/plugins is the same thing as mozilla/plugins. Symbolic
> >>links are aliases, meaning that "/usr/lib/mozilla" is just another name
> >>for "/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2".
> >>
> >>Mozilla is run as "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla", so having
> >>"/usr/lib/mozilla" point at the current version makes it easy to upgrade
> >>versions, but still be able to go back to a previous version if the new
> >>one doesn't work. This is done by installing in a new
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla-(version)" directory and changing the symbolic link.
> >>If you don't like it, change the symbolic link back to the previous
> >>version.
> >>
> >>For example, here's what I have (cleaned up to fit the display):
> >>
> >>[root at prophead root]# ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla -> mozilla-1.6
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5
> >>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6
> >>
> >>So, I have versions of Mozilla from 1.2.1 through 1.6, but the active
> >>one is 1.6.
> >>
> >>Symbolic links are special files. "rm" will delete them.
> >
> >
> > My system is presently using gcc-2.3.2 as shown:
> >
> > [root at redhat90 plugins]# ls /lib/libc-*
> > /lib/libc-2.3.2.so
> >
> >
> > I guess I am using the incorrect version and I need to point to "ns610"
> > /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >
> > so if I use the
> >
> > [root at redhat90 plugins]# rm
> > /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >
> > rm: remove regular file
> > `/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so'?
> > Will it delete the FILE "ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so" or
> > or will Remove the Link to the file it's pointing to within the
> > directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins?
>
> If you're in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins, it should just delete
> the symbolic link. Can you do this:
>
> # cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
> # ls -l
>
> and send me the output before you do anything?
Here it is...
[chris at redhat90 plugins]$ ls -l
total 1468
root 856 Mar 18 12:35 flashplayer.xpt
root 1470464 Mar 18 12:36 libflashplayer.so
root 72 Mar 18 11:56 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
root 18808 Mar 8 15:32 libnullplugin.so
Chris Cz
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