Priest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 OK, so I got the flash plugin installed for Firefox, that was pretty easy. MP3 support can wait becasue I rarely can ever get a sound card to work with Linux anyway. But Java, Triied this here http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-l...ml#install-java I went to my /apps/firefox, ran ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so And I still get the plugin prompt every time I go to a page with Java. I am bitching about this becasue it's not like I am the only person that has ever needed to install java or flash plugins. So anyway, I will ask a question I should have already found an answer for, I am running j2re1.4.2_04, how do I link it to Firefox so it will recognise it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 We have something in our FAQ's forum. Try here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4548 From what I see in your post, your link command does not seem complete. Also, the link needs to be in /usr/bin and not /apps/firefox. Hope this helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priest Posted June 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 With firefox I just extracted the tar.gz and copied the folder to /apps/firefox I just needed to be in /apps/firefox/plugins before linking libjavaplugin_oji.so working now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 What on earth is an /apps directory doing there?? Never seen one of those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 If I remember right I symliked from /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ I didn't put anything in apps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 geewiz...ya'll ever hear of mkdir ? ;) I run my firefox from a tarball from /share. Anything strange about that? Nope.....symlinks do not care. I can run that firefox from 5 distros ;) try it sometime B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priest Posted June 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 I created the apps directory becasue the idea of throwing everything in /usr/bin /bin /usr/local/bin and managing it from there never struck me as intuitive. This is why: ls /usr/bin /bin | wc -l 1717 This isn't any different than if I emptied the contents of windows "program files" into c:\windows\system32, c:\winnt\system32, c:\windows etc. Fine for Apache, grep, and bash, not fine for Firefox, Gaim, and Gimp. Yes, I have read FHS /bin : Essential user command binaries (for use by all users) /usr/bin : Most user commands Firefox is not a "user command", it is an application. GUI applications are not specified anywhere in the FHS. It would make many peoples lives easier of they just add the /apps directoty to FHS. /apps Optional directory for GUI applications. Problem solved. I use it all the time, the world is still here, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Qchem Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 Isn't that what /opt is for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priest Posted June 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 /opt seems to be mostly for vendor specific stuff. eg. If I ordered ironport spamfilters for my mail farm, their software would usually be installed to /opt So it is mostly used for companies that sell services on the Linux platform, but not for graphical applications, although you probably could use it for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 :D of course every flavour of Linux has it's own way of doing things. I made the (bad) assumption that you were a newb and just placing things wherever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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