Hi, On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just installed Netscape 4.78 in /usr/lib/netscape/478 (downloaded > > from netscape.com and installed it like the previous (debian) version), > > and all is working fine except the plugins. When I run > > '/usr/lib/netscape/478/netscape/netscape' the plugins are detected and > > working well, but when I start it via a symlink (like > > '/etc/alternatives/netscape', pointing to the above path), the plugins are > > not detected. > > > > Any ideas on this? > > Not sure if Netscape has issues with this, but I've found several > applications (OpenOffice comes to mind) that need to be started via > scripts, not symlinks. > I replaced /etc/alternatives/netscape by a simple bash script, and it works fine now. Any idea why some programs could have probs with this? Thanks! Sebastiaan
