Mozilla apps installed outside of the repository

[NoOp]

On 01/25/2010 02:00 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
...
>> $ locate libnpjp2.so
>> $ mkdir /home/<username>/.mozilla/plugins/
>> $ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins/
>> $ ln -s <path to libnpjp2.so>
>> $ ln -l
>> and the last command should show your link.
>> 
>> Example for the last; I have jre version 18 installed in /usr/lib/jvm.
>> So my link is:
>> $ ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_18/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
>> 
>> :~/.mozilla/plugins$ ls -l
>> total 0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 gg2xp gg2xp 45 2010-01-25 11:11 libnpjp2.so ->
>> /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_18/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
>> 
> 
> 
> Just before I got this I used Gnome Commander to create a symbolic link 
> between libnpjp2.so and /home(<me>/firefox/plugins and the plugin now 
> works.  

Don't put the link there. Instead put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins.

> I'll have to study what you wrote above.  Is your method better? 

Yes. If you put the link in ~/.mozilla/plugins all mozilla applications
can use the link.

>   It seemed that firefox was a little slower to open now, or maybe 
> that's just me.

Could be. I get Fx 3.6 opening in 7 seconds (2.4Ghz/1Gb system) and
Ubuntu's 3.5.6 opening in 5. Two seconds doesn't bother me much.

> 
> Thanks,  Jim
> 
>