Mozilla-1.4.2 UP2DATEd thru Red Hat Alert

[Rick Stevens]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:57, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 13:24, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Copied the files to /usr/lob/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
>>> and it shows up in Mozilla -> help -> Plugins            so that works
>>>
>>>However I made the link in there also /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins 
>>>          when should have made it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>>>
>>>so what is the command to remove the symbolic link from
>>>         /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins 
>>>and then I will reapply in 
>>>         /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>>
>>Well, generally /usr/lib/mozilla is a symbolic link to the current
>>version of Mozilla.  If you did the "ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*", you
>>may have seen this at the end of one of the lines:
>>
>>	/usr/lib/mozilla -> mozilla-1.4.2
>>
>>If so, you don't need to change anything as putting the link in
>>mozilla-1.4.2/plugins is the same thing as mozilla/plugins.  Symbolic
>>links are aliases, meaning that "/usr/lib/mozilla" is just another name
>>for "/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2".
>>
>>Mozilla is run as "/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla", so having
>>"/usr/lib/mozilla" point at the current version makes it easy to upgrade
>>versions, but still be able to go back to a previous version if the new
>>one doesn't work.  This is done by installing in a new
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-(version)" directory and changing the symbolic link.
>>If you don't like it, change the symbolic link back to the previous
>>version.
>>
>>For example, here's what I have (cleaned up to fit the display):
>>
>>[root at prophead root]# ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*
>>/usr/lib/mozilla -> mozilla-1.6
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.5
>>/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6
>>
>>So, I have versions of Mozilla from 1.2.1 through 1.6, but the active
>>one is 1.6.
>>
>>Symbolic links are special files.  "rm" will delete them.
> 
> 
> My system is presently using gcc-2.3.2 as shown:
> 
> [root at redhat90 plugins]# ls /lib/libc-*
> /lib/libc-2.3.2.so
> 
> 
> I guess I am using the incorrect version and I need to point to "ns610" 
>   /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> so if I use the 
> 
> [root at redhat90 plugins]# rm
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> rm: remove regular file
> `/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so'? 
> Will it delete the FILE "ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so"   or 
> or will Remove the Link to the file it's pointing to within the
> directory /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins?

If you're in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins, it should just delete
the symbolic link.  Can you do this:

	# cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2/plugins
	# ls -l

and send me the output before you do anything?
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