Re: Mozilla plugins in 7.2

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

David Talkington wrote:

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> Has anyone else had trouble with Flash apps in Mozilla on 7.2?
> Netscape still handles them correctly, but Mozilla doesn't, at least
> on my installation.  There's a link to the Netscape flash library at
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, just as there's always been.  Installing my
> own Flash player doesn't help.
>
> ? -d
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David try searching the archives.  I know that to get it working on 6.2
I had to make sure there were a couple of links that had to do with the
java installation.

In fact here they are:  the two symlinks had to be there on 6.2 .  Not
sure if it directly applies to 7.2 or not.


[bhughes bretdell_linux plugins]$ pwd
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[bhughes bretdell_linux plugins]$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Oct 22 00:02 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 May 31 09:17 ..
-r--r--r--    1 bhughes  bhughes      2363 Jan 26  2001
ShockwaveFlash.class
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 Feb 24  2001 java2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           40 Oct 22 00:02
libflashplayer.so -> ../../netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           69 Feb 24  2001
libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[bhughes bretdell_linux plugins]$



HTH

Bret