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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:01 , Randall R Schulz
Jim,
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:15, Jim Worrest wrote:
I decided to install the new mplayerplug-in for Mozilla on a computer using apt-get. BIG MISTAKE! Now I can't get Mozilla or Synaptic to boot up. The boot up of my 9.0 Pro from grub even doesn't act the same. Is there a cure for this? ---Jim
Of course not. Your computer will never work again. Just buy a new one and all new software distributions and start over.
The idea did cross my mind, much like the typical Linux user, I know it's the sturggle against adversity that is part of the game.
Now...
First off, I don't know what sort of actions apt takes that could have effects outside the packages to which it is applied. I stick to YaST / YOU, some manually installed RPMs and some non-RPM packages. The latter are generally self-contained and don't seem to interfere. Mozilla is one of these, by the way.
I used apt-get, I thought I was being careful, but using programs outside the regular SuSE programs, is living dangerously. I will probably use apt-get even less in the future, though it does serve some very useful purposes.
Next, when I first got MPlayer and tried to use the plug-in with my Mozilla install (not the SuSE-supplied one, which lags too far behind Mozilla development for me, but the latest provided on Mozilla.org, 1.7.0 at the time) it would not work because the MPlayer plug-in was compiled for GTK2 and the Linux release of Mozilla provided by Mozilla.org was built for GTK1 (presumably because that's more universally available than GTK2).
Nowadays Mozilla.org supplies a GTK2-based build, and with that MPlayer works fine.
I should have on of the very latest Mozillas, 1.7.2, I believe
I did not have the symptoms you did, but I have in the past found incompatible extension software (I'm thinking of the spell-check, which at one time was a separately supplied add-on) would prevent Mozilla from even launching. You may be experiencing a similar problem, since Netscape 7 is, I think, even more archaic than the Mozilla 1.6 supplied by SuSE.
Ah, you must have SuSE 9.1, 1.4 comes with 9.0
I'd recommend you get the latest GTK2-based build of Mozilla from Mozilla.org. That will enable you to use the MPlayer plug-in. It is otherwise compatible with things like your settings and bookmark files. You may need to retrieve new skins that are compatible with the version of Mozilla you install.
I will tinker, I was just blind-sided by this problem, and it doesn't seem very easy to fix. Thanks for the information. ---Jim
Randall Schulz
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