[SOLVED] Re: Seamonkey 2.03 to 2.5 lost plugins

[Jim Byrnes]

On 12/16/2011 02:56 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks to NoOp I now have the plugins showing up and working.  Turns out 
I mistakenly downloaded the 32bit version and they wouldn't work on my 
64bit system.

Regards,  Jim