On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 19:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:34 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 20:06 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:07:23 -0700 > > > > Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > By the way - Item 6 - firefox plugins aren't part of fedora packaging > > > > > > > > Yea, but building firefox so it's tool that downloads plugins believes > > > > it ought to install them in the directory firefox actually looks in is > > > > part of the packaging :-). > > > ---- > > > huh? > > > > > > As a user, it installs plugins in your user directory > > > > > > Craig > > > > > Now I am confused. plugins are normally installed as rpms as root and > > don't put anything in my home directory. > ---- > If you install plugins as root, then all users have access to them but I > think for the most part, we are talking about users who are running a > one user system. > > If you are going to install plugins as root, hopefully you are using rpm > packaging (even better, use yum) which will know where to put the files. > Otherwise, you have to put the original or a symbolic link to the > original in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins - but that has been the way things > have been for quite some time and if something changed, that would come > as a surprise to me since the below is from my FC-6 system and it's > working fine... > > ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Nov 29 11:38 libjavaplugin_oji.so > -> /usr/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > Craig True but they are not in the users directory which was mu point. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
