netscape plugins

[re-v]

I re4cently installed netscape 7.0
I bought the cd from netscape for 3.00. for a complete install including java plugins takes around 5 minutes total

I would like to use these plugins with mozilla which
currently has none.
Please advise
Thank you
Re-v

[askrieger]

One way is to copy them from /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/ to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/.

I thought there was a way of telling Mozilla to use the plugins from the netscape plugin directory, but I can't find it today.

[hlrguy]

For all the plugins that are in one directory, you can create a softlink to from another directory. Copy will work, but uses more disk space.

/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/
Want to use plugins from this directory...

softlink them from this directory
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

for example, netscape has a plugin called rpnp.so in the first
directory.

Do this in the mozilla directory...

ln -s /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/rpnp.so rpmp.so

Then, when Mozilla runs, it will follow the link. Don't know anything about Mozilla however, and whether the plugin registry is created on startup or whether you have to manually update/refresh or tell it to update it.

hlrguy

[cruyff777]

For some reason I'm not able to find any plugins. I've copied, made soft links and still Netscape can't find the plugins. If I su to root and then start Netscape it works great.... I know this should be easy but what can I be missing....??? please help.

[askrieger]

When you can do something as root that you can't do as an ordinary user, it generally means that there is a file somewhere for which you don't have execute permission. Run an "ls -al" on the plugin directory and see what you get.

[cruyff777]

I've tried that.... permissions for all of the plugins are as follows. I've even copied them to my ~./netsape/plugins directory and chmod and chgrp to normal user. I know I'm doing something really stupid here..... but any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks

rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110021 Dec 21 00:13 javaplugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 946108 Aug 23 07:50 libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 271237 Dec 21 00:12 libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19396 Aug 23 07:49 libnullplugin.so
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4139 May 18 2001 raclass.zip
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 131580 May 18 2001 rpnp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2363 Aug 23 07:49 ShockwaveFlash.class

[cruyff777]

Wow... okay. I have no idea what happened but I wiped out Netscape and Mozilla. I downloaded the latest stable version of Mozilla. I copied all of the plugins over to the /usr/local/mozill/plugins directory and it works great. Now my only problem is the RealPlayer plugin isn't working...

[cruyff777]

Any reason why my Realplayer 8 plugin doesn't work. I see the rpnp.so plugin when I select 'about plugins' but it doesn't seem to work. RealPlayer has been installed and works great by itself. Any ideas....??? Thanks in advance.