Mozilla-1.4.2 UP2DATEd thru Red Hat Alert

[Rick Stevens]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just finished Up2Date thru Red Hat Alert
> which upgraded my Mozilla to mozilla-1.4.2-0.9.0
> 
> I have now lost my mozilla plugins e.g. flashplayer, libflashplayer.
> I think I have lost my java link - as I now get an Error
> 
> -------------------------------
> JavaScript Application
> 
> ! Error-Unregistered OpenCube DHTML Effect - (www.opencube.com)
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> What and How do I get them back?

Mozilla is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-(version).  Plugins are
installed in the "/plugins" directory of that location.  To get your
plugins back, copy the stuff from the the previous version's /plugins
directory.  I can't tell you the exact name of the directory as I don't
know what the previous version of Mozilla was, but the command
"ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*" will show you the names involved.

Note that the previous version's java stuff is most likely a symbolic
link to the Java runtime interpreter.  Make the same link in the new
Mozilla's /plugins.  Do NOT copy that link (that'll put a copy of the
interpreter in /plugins which won't work right), but do the symlink
manually.  In my case, that's

     # cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
     # ln -s 
/usr/local/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
libjavaplugin_oji.so

The other stuff is safe to copy.

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