[Glastonbury] New to it

[tim hall]

Last Wednesday 29 December 2004 07:47, maurice was like:
> Two or three weeks into my Mandrake Linux Installation:
>
> Success:
> Firefox installed and working
> Broadband internet connection established through Router/modem
> Epson 1290 printer connected and working well
> Skype downloaded and installed fine
>
> Most of the software installed with distro working fine:
>  for example OpenOffice suit, Konquerer, Gimp, Kopete, KMail, CD Player etc

You have done well! Printer configuration is generally a bit of a steering 
wheel in the trousers for me.

> Some disappointments:
> Java downloaded and works with Koquerer but not Firefox
> RealPlayer downloaded but BBC will not connect (Konquerer looking for
> cook.50.60)

Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins 
directory. (usually ~/.mozilla/plugins) Unless you are using an old version 
of Mozilla, or one you compiled yourself with gcc 2.9x, use the copy located 
in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if 
you are using JRE 1.4.2. It's very important to only create *symbolic* links 
here. What I then did was to link ~/.firefox/plugins to ~/.mozilla/plugins so 
both browsers can share the plugins. The process is fairly similar for 
RealPlayer.

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Here's a further example:
 I see:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Goto this dir, and do ls -l
If the libjavaplugin_oji.so has an lrwxrwxrwx (note that the rwx's dont matter 
- l is important) it is already a symlink, and it should point to a location, 
if that location is one that you have found using the find command, try 
changing it with:

Then, to do a symbolic link, goto the plugins folder (where ever it is the 
symlink needs to be) and type:

ln -s /foo/java/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so


In your case, for instance:

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
mv ./libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so.bak

ln 
-s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so


For finding hidden files/folders, do a "ls -al"

or, even try "cd ./.f" (then hit tab after you type the last and use the 
autocompletion.)

The preceeding . is for current working directory. To see this, type in "pwd"
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Anyhow, more info here:
http://wiki.arslinux.com/Browser_Plugins
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html

typing about:config into the location bar of firefox should bring up all the 
configuration info.

> Rosegarden midi sequencer downloaded and installed runs well but will not
> create sound (jackd)
> Kmid installed from distro CD. Looks good but doesn't seem to want to play.

That was my experience of Kmid IIRC. Timidity sometimes works ;-]

> Haven't yet successfully mounted the usb card reader so I can import the
> images from my digital cameras. Also Windows partition (used for file
> storage only) seems to be recognised but not yet mounted. Seems I don't
> have permission.
>
> Well aware that I'm trying to get applications running without sufficient
> knowledge of Linux and the learning curve seems huge - little or no light
> on the horizon. Have to ask how much do I need to learn just to install
> applications successfully?

Erm, Just a little bit more ;-] Just another wafer-thin user manual sir? or 
perhaps a mini-howto? Mandrake can be slightly complicated WRT installing 
applications, allegedly, it's one of those 'easy when you know how' 
equations. It sounds like you've figured the larger part. Reading is Good[TM]

> The help I've gratefully received here has moved me forward but often I'm
> just as confused.
>
> Well aware that a lot of generous developers have made this all happen and
> there is absolutely no room for complaint

Complaint, no. Bug Reports and Feature Requests, yes.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk