On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:46, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Resending to the list. Sorry for the dup, Carl!
Hey, you realized it first and scolded yourself, which makes my job easier :-) Thanks!
...I get the following error:
Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /opt/MozillaFirefox WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
and it again asks for the path. I do have an /opt/MozillaFirefox folder. What is it complaining about?
I haven't run that installer, but it it'll need write permissions to the directory. I'd log in with "su -" and try again *or* just give it ".mozilla" and have it "land" the plug-in there. Then you can move it and symlink as I've described previously (chown root:root after). If you're already trying as superuser, you should study the script to see how it's handling the path internally? Or play around until it stops complaining i.e adding/removing slashes or spell out the specific target directory ("/opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins" no quotes) Of course, studying the script is faster than a trial and error guessing game.
I would then move it to /usr/lib/browser-plugins/ and symlink to it from there,
To which from where? To a file under /usr/lib/browser-plugins? From /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins?
Duh! "/usr/lib/browser-plugins" is the SUSE default system repository for browser plug-ins. If the actual object lives there, then the links have to be placed in the individual browser plug-in directories for the browsers to find them! Need coffee? :-) And man ln if you need help creating the links. Hint: use the -s variety
BTW, will Konqueror be able to use this plugin if I install for Firefox? I usually use only Konqueror.
Settings > Configure Konqueror > Plugins - verify: <x> Enable global plugins ... <x> Scan for new plugins at KDE startup *or* click the 'Scan For New Plugins' button. regards, - Carl