On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Just load it into mozilla. i.e., load the URL > > > > file:///path/to/jre.xpi > > > > Mozilla will offer to install the plugin, and do a bunch of stuff then > > hang. Then, you get out of mozilla, cd to the plugins directory and > > > > ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . > > I tried this with the flash plugin, but I can't get mozilla to recognize > it.
In the case of the java plugin (java.xpi), manual installation is a pretty simple matter. Put java.xpi in $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins and unzip it (with the 'unzip' command). Rename the resulting directory to 'java2'. I don't know if that's actually necessary, but that's what the mozilla auto-installer does. Then run ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . Java will now work. Flash is even easier. The flash archive contains 2 important files: ShockwaveFlash.class and libflashplayer.so. Just put them in $MOZILLA_HOME/plugins and re-start mozilla. Check the debugging output when starting mozilla and you'll see that it detects the new plugins. Often, however, a site won't detect flash simply because you're running mozilla and it doesn't know how to handle the user-agent string (or something braindead like that). So it assumes that you're using a completely incapable browser. Often sites will have a link that allows you to get their flash content even if they don't detect the flash plugin. This method has been working for me since...I dunno, several months ago, and I update mozilla with a nightly build once a week or so. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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