Mozilla Plug-ins - Not Recognized

[diamond_joe]

Hi Everyone,

I really hope someone can point me in the right direction. I'm trying to get some plugins to work through Galeon. Mainly, I'm trying to get java and flash to work.

I've got the files in the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins directory, but they do not appear in the help->about plugins page.

The only plugin listed as active is "libnullplugin.so". I've been through the howtos on both the macromedia site and the sun site. I've read through some other forums (here (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114385&highlight=galeon+plugins),
here (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=111333&highlight=galeon+plugins), and here (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107435&highlight=galeon+plugins)). None of the advice helped.

Quick rundown of what I've tried:
-placing the libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins; in ~/.mozilla/plugins; or in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins. It was recognized in none of these locations. NOTE: using the flashplayer installer would only accept /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4 as a valid install path.
-verifying that the libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins was a symbolic link, and not an actual file.
-checking help->about plugins after each attempt at a plugin install

Can anyone tell me where I've gone wrong, and point me in the right direction? Is there a howto available that I haven't found? Do I need to do anything special in Mozilla after the appropriate *.so files are in the plugins directory?

Joe

[TreeHugger]

Pardon my ignorance but what is galeon, and why does mozilla have to run through it?

My mozilla plugins never caused a problem in 25 upgrades and installs.

[hard candy]

From another forum:

PROBLEM SOLVED!! ( post #8)

Thanks again, Acid_kewpie! I solved my problem with a bit of your advice. I checked the plugins info under help and found out that Galeon was looking in this directory for the plugins:

/usr/local/mozilla/plugins

I have my plugins for Mozilla stored here:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins

I just copied them from where they were to where Galeon was expecting to find them and *cash register sound* IT WORKED! Thanks a lot for your help.

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[diamond_joe]

Originally posted by hard candy
From another forum:

PROBLEM SOLVED!! ( post #8)

Thanks again, Acid_kewpie! I solved my problem with a bit of your advice. I checked the plugins info under help and found out that Galeon was looking in this directory for the plugins:

/usr/local/mozilla/plugins

I have my plugins for Mozilla stored here:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins

I just copied them from where they were to where Galeon was expecting to find them and *cash register sound* IT WORKED! Thanks a lot for your help.

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Thanks for this post, but I've already tried this. What is causing my frustration is that mozilla itself is not recognizing plugins. Not merely galeon pulling the plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Neither is happening.

HTH, Joe

[hard candy]

Symbolic links are in my /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins.
The "libflashplayer.so" points to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so.
The "libjavaplugin_oji.so" points to /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
And "libnullplugin.so" is real.
Galeon and Firebird both use the plugins.

[diamond_joe]

Originally posted by hard candy
Symbolic links are in my /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins.
The "libflashplayer.so" points to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so.
The "libjavaplugin_oji.so" points to /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
And "libnullplugin.so" is real.
Galeon and Firebird both use the plugins.

For me /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins contains:
libflashplayer.so the actual file, not a link
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins doesn't exist for me
libjavaplugin_oji.so ->a symbolic link to /usr/java/jre1.3.1_09/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so

It still doesn't appear in mozillas about plugins, nor does a java or flash page work in either mozilla or galeon.

Joe

[diamond_joe]

I wonder if this is related; here's another thing I noticed, that seems to be a similar symptom.

While trying to install (via rpm) Gaim 0.71, I get the error message that dependancies fail for libtcl8.3.so and libtk8.3.so. I have downloaded and installed both tcl and tk versions 8.3. Both libtcl8.3.so and libtk8.3.so arrived successfully (after compilation) in /usr/local/lib. I have made symlinks to them in /usr/lib just to be sure. I still get the failed dependancy messages

Is it possible that rpm fails to see these files, in the same way that mozilla fails to see the flashplayer and java files?

Thanks,
Joe

[diamond_joe]

Another update,

I did this:
mv libnullplugin.so libnullplugin.bak

in my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory, and help->about plugins changed to indicated that no plugins were installed. Changing back to .so from .bak changes what is listed in help->about plugins.

My java plugin is listed in that directory as a symlink, and my flash plugin is a regular file in that directory. Yet still, neither the java nor the flash plugin is recognized by mozilla.

I'm baffled.

Joe

[diamond_joe]

Further Update,

I installed the flashplayer via rpm (before I'd used their installer) and now I have a recognized flash player. The difference (at least, that which I can spot) is that libflashplayer.so is now a symlink, instead of a real file, in my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory.

Just java to go...

[asklepios]

so did you sym link libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins?

[diamond_joe]

Originally posted by asklepios
so did you sym link libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins?

Yeah, this is what I have for libjavaplugin_oji.so:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Oct 20 18:33 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.3.1_09/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so*

[asklepios]

afaik you will require jre 1.4.2.
i have read this exact same problem somewhere else too but now i can't remember where. anyways, you try 1.4.2 and that shd work.

[diamond_joe]

Okay, I downloaded and installed j2sdk 1.4.2. I symlinked the libjavaplugin_oji.so file from the ns610 directory, into my mozilla plugins directory. This caused every browser to crash after launch.

Removing the symlink gives me back my browser, but definately doesn't solve my java plugin problems.

Any ideas are appreciated. I'm at a loss for where to go next...

[asklepios]

sym link it to ns610-gcc32 one.

[diamond_joe]

Originally posted by asklepios
sym link it to ns610-gcc32 one.

I beat you to the punch. I was just coming here to post that it worked, when I got the email that you'd replied.

Thanks to everyone for their help! Both plugins are now working...

Joe