Re: Mozilla 1.4 plugins.

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Thanks Pete. I'll give that a try.

Pete Nesbitt wrote:

On February 6, 2004 05:11 pm, James Moberg wrote:


Pete Nesbitt wrote:


On February 1, 2004 07:57 am, James Moberg wrote:


Hi. I need some help with installing a plugin for Mozilla 1.4. I am
using RH-Linux 7.3. For some of the web sites I visit I get a message
saying "Java not installed" or "Java not enabled". So I went onto the
Mozilla web site and followed the instructions to install both Java and
a plugin that is required to see all the stuff on these web sites. if
you go to www.truelook.com you will see what I mean. I followed the
instructions and I still get the messages. I'm quite frustrated at this
point because I have made a couple attempts to fix this and have done
nothing but spend countless hours getting nowhere. So this means that
for some web sites I have to reboot the computer into windows and view
them there. Has anyone had this problem and if so then what the heck
did you do to fix it?


Hi,
I just tried this and it works fine. I tested the link you supplied before
(failed) & after (works)

Go to www.java.com, get the rpm.bin file, read the installation at that
site, install it.
To set up plugins just make a sym link from your browsers plugin dir:
ln -s <java-plugins-dir>libjavaplugin_oji.so <browse_plugin-dir>

Here is what i used:
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/plugins/

Hope that helps.


Hi Pete. I did what you wrote and it still does not work. I still get
the same message and the web pages don't work. Any other suggestions
will be appreciated.




Hi James,
it is likely a problem with the location of the pluggins, not the java install itself.


I don't use the regular Mozilla (I like Mozilla Firebird) but it is installed on my system, and I show Mozilla plugins at:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (just mozplugger.so)
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins (appears to be the 'real' plugin dir)


Make sure your sym link is in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins (or where ever your other plugins reside). (use 'locate mozilla|grep plug')

Next, once that is in place, and I think it may need to be executable, restart Mozilla and look at the plugins list. It is either under "help ->about -> plugins" or else type the url as "about:plugins"

That will show you what plugins the browser is aware of and at this point should definately show a heading similar to:
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03-b02
File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03
followed by a chart of application associations.


Let me know if you can get it to that point, the key being finding the location of your existing plugins and linking to that directory (there may be a ~/.mozilla dir with plugins, but I think we are after the global area)

I just had a look at the /usr/bin/mozilla (shell script to start mozilla) and it shows:
###
if [ "$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH" ]
then
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins
else
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins
fi
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
###
so based on that (check your own script) that /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/plugins should work.




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