From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7xoG-00084B-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:09:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OG6xAq010476; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:06:59 GMT Received: from cinzia.sailorferris.com (cinzia.sailorferris.com [213.146.119.240]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OG2tbc024200 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:02:55 GMT Received: by cinzia.sailorferris.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B55AAD5064BE; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:04:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Pinna <mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:04:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200508202056.18152.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> <200508240119.00341.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> <430BD1F8.8020805@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <430BD1F8.8020805@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1491956.k97gHSAR0k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200508241804.16978.mailing-gentoo@sailorferris.com> X-Archives-Salt: 98f396ba-b477-424e-b04f-ab15f857df47 X-Archives-Hash: 937f61291ce95a069f9f392da1036ac9 --nextPart1491956.k97gHSAR0k Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Alle 03:48, mercoled=EC 24 agosto 2005, Holly Bostick ha scritto: > /opt/firefox/plugins??? How did you install Firefox? Does the -bin > ebuild install to /opt (I compile mine)? Even so, it seems weird that > the -bin ebuild would have a completely different filetree from the > compiled version... the only way I know (unless the -bin ebuild does > install to /opt) to install Firefox to /opt (under Gentoo) is to use > the Linux installer on the Mozilla site. I installed firefox from portage, but I have 2 versions: precompiled and=20 compiled. The problem is that flash plug-in doesn't work in 64 bit mode (I have a=20 amd64) and I must install a 32 bit version to use it. > Firefox isn't looking in /opt/firefox/plugins for its plugins, > apparently, or is unable to use what it finds there. Why, I don't > know. Where it is in fact looking, I also don't know... but on my > system, the mplayer plugin is installed in 2 places: > > /opt/netscape/plugins (which is probably a deprecated holdover from a > previous version of something else, something old and not-too-bright) > > /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins > (this folder is symlinked to /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins) > > You might try the following two commands to see if there are other > directories that Firefox might be searching: > > locate firefox/plugins > locate Firefox/plugins Cinzia ~ # locate firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins /opt/firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so /opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /opt/firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libnullplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt Cinzia ~ # locate Firefox/plugins /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins Cinzia ~ # ll /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins -> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins > Alternatively, what are the permissions on the plugin files you > copied? It's possible that the user trying to run them doesn't have > permissions to read the files-- i.e., root copied them to opt, but > the regular user is an "other" (neither root nor a member of the > group owning the files), and does not have the necessary permission > to read the file when Firefox is opened and attempts to read the > plugin files. Additionally, it's possible that the user only has > permission to read the plugin, and needs read-write (my plugin is > rwx-rwx-rwx, and I'm pretty sure I never touched them; I wasn't even > aware of /usr/lib/nsbrowser until I started investigating this just > now). > Holly I did the chmod 777 /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.* because: ll /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.* /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so=20 =2D> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt=20 =2D> /opt/netscape/plugins/mplayerplug-in.xpt but it doesn't solve the problem! Luigi =2D-=20 Public key GPG(0x073A0960) on http://keyserver.linux.it/ --nextPart1491956.k97gHSAR0k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDDJqA+87qsQc6CWARAmUJAKCkedzVLk/IssRp+mA06cazBuExMACfbcZY 67sTyzEOV/u4911111ZFPj8= =V6AA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1491956.k97gHSAR0k-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list