long wait...

[Kam Leo]

On Nov 11, 2007 10:12 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:28:37 -0500
> Claude Jones <cjones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>
> > I was having the same problem. I decided to update my two
> > machines on F7 using yum. Both went off without great
> > complications overnight. They both have 'issues' this morning,
> > but they seem fairly trivial, so far.
>
> I decided to bite the bullet and did a scratch install of F8 x86_64 on this
> computer.  The format and initial installation took only an hour or so.  I've
> been copying data and putting Humpty Dumpty back together again ever since.
>
> The only three things that I have left to do are to compile Scribus (the one
> that's included in the F8 repository is 1.3.4 which is the development version
> and not recommended for production work),  set up LTSP so my terminal will
> work again, and figure out how to make the plugins work with this new Firefox.
> I see that I have only NPAPI Plugins Wrapper and GCJ Web Browser Plugin at the
> moment.  I did install the Livna mplayerplug-in rpm so I wonder what happened
> to that...
>


Mplayer plugin got installed in the usual place,
/user/lib/mozilla/plugins/, on my system. I needed to copy the files
over to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins before they appeared.
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