[sclug] browser plugins

[Neil Haughton]

The java plugin works fine with the symlink you suggest. Realplayer8 
doesn't yield to this approach :-)

I'm going to try the Helix Realplayer 10, and see if that is better.

Neil.


Smiles, Mark (Mark) wrote:

>I had similar fun setting up citrix java client in firefox for java ssl
>tunnelling back to my business. The result was achieved when I
>symbolically linked in the firefox plugin directory, to the
>libjavaplugin_oji.so file installed in the system from the sun j2re rpm.
>Worked on Mozilla 1.6 also.
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>Not sure if this helps with realplayer java as I haven't tested this but
>you can give it a try.
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>Mark
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk [mailto:sclug-bounces at sclug.org.uk] On
>Behalf Of Alex Butcher
>Sent: 19 May 2004 19:39
>To: Neil Haughton
>Cc: sclug at sclug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [sclug] browser plugins
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>On Wed, 19 May 2004, Neil Haughton wrote:
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>>I've put a copy of raclass.zip in the .../firefox/plugins directory,
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>>j2re has been installed (I can see the  java 1.4.2_02 gcc32 plugin 
>>listed), and I've changed the rights on raclass.zip to rwxrwxrwx, but
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>>still can't see it in Firefox.
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>>Does raclass.zip need to be unpacked or something? I'm sure I haven't 
>>had this trouble before.
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>No, Java understands classes in .zip files.
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>I'm guessing that your copy of firefox has been compiled with a
>different
>version of gcc than the RealPlayer plugin. ISTR there was some hackage
>going
>on in Mozilla/Firefox to prevent this from being a problem, but I have
>no
>idea whether that's complete and fully working or not.
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>>Neil.
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>Alex.
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>>Alex Butcher wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 18 May 2004, Neil Haughton wrote:
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>>>>Doea anyone know how to install plugins for firefox (or mozilla)?
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>>>>I've done the obvious, but  no joy:
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>>>>1. I installed the plugin using the installer( as root).
>>>>2. I copied (as root) the plugin (eg rpnp.so) to the firefox/plugins
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>>>>directory (eg /usr/lib/firefox/plugins) where the other plugins are,
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>>>>when I start FF again, no plugin is displayed when I put
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>about:plugins 
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>>>>as the url
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>>>>So what am I missing out?
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>>>>Hope someone can unravel this for me.
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>>>IIRC, the Realplayer plugin also requires raclass.zip to be copied to
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>>>plugins directory. That would also imply that a working Java Runtime
>>>Environment is necessary too.
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>>>>Neil
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>>>Best Regards,
>>>Alex.
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