Mozilla-1.4.2 UP2DATEd thru Red Hat Alert

Thu Mar 18 21:47:08 UTC 2004

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:51, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> Here it is...
> 
> [chris at redhat90 plugins]$ ls -l
> total 1468
> root          856 Mar 18 12:35 flashplayer.xpt
> root      1470464 Mar 18 12:36 libflashplayer.so
> root           72 Mar 18 11:56 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> root        18808 Mar  8 15:32 libnullplugin.so

Ok, you can:

	# cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2
	# rm libjavaplugin_oji.so

to delete the symlink.  But, as I said, you DON'T need to do this
if "ls -ld /usr/lib/mozilla*" shows something like:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mar 17 17:01 /usr/lib/mozilla -> mozilla-1.4.2

since /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.2 are the same
directory.
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