Seamonkey 2.03 to 2.5 lost plugins

[NoOp]

On 12/15/2011 07:47 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 02:29 PM, NoOp wrote:
...
>> Jim how/where did you 'install' SeaMonkey? I extract to a home folder
>> and simply run from there:
>> /home/<user>/seamonkey/seamonkey
> 
> That's what I did also.
> 
>> actually my command in the menu is:
>> /home/gg/Seamonkey2.6/seamonkey/seamonkey -mail -browser
> 
> /home/jfb/seamonkey/seamonkey  is mine.  Just to be complete I just 
> tried the -mail -browser switches but it did no good.
> 
> When this all started I saved a copy of the original /.mozilla/seamonkey 
> directory.  So I removed everything I did and re-installed it thinking 
> maybe I did something wrong the first time but still acted the same. 
> After multiple attempts I found that simply extracting the tar.bz file 
> would turn a good puginreg.dat file into that mess I posted. On one try 
> I even made a good puginreg.dat read only.  Seamonkey installed, no 
> pluginreg.dat was generated but I sill had no plugins installed. 
> Strange it worked for you and of  course the same procedure worked for 
> me when I did it with Firefox.
> 
>> If you still have problems, can you please install Joe Lesko's ppa
>> version? Note: I have been testing all of the versions as Joe builds
>> them&  can pretty well guarantee that his 2.5 will install&  work on
>> your system:
>>
>> <https://launchpad.net/~joe-nationnet/+archive/seamonkey-dev>
>>
>> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joe-nationnet/seamonkey-dev
>> $ sudo apt-get update
>> $ sudo apt-get install seamonkey
>>
> 
> Ok, I'll give that a shot.  I haven't used ppa's much so I wonder will 
> future updates come from mozilla or the ppa?

The ppa. Also note that you do not have to uninstall/remopve your
/home/jfb/seamonkey/seamonkey version, you can have both installed &
they will use the same '~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<defaultprofile>'.
...
Probably better if we take this off list, that way we can exchange
screenshots & 'ls -al' etc. Can you send me (directly) the output of:

$ ls -al ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<defaultprofile>
$ ls -al ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/<defaultprofile>/plugins
$ ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Thanks.