FC6 through the rear view mirror

[Craig White]

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 at azapple.com> 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.
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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