[wplug] Firebird and Java

[Jonathan S Billings]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:40, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> So I closed all my Mozilla browsers, 'su - 'ed, and ran 'mozstart' as
> root.  As root, I have no plugins installed (as myself, I had shockwave
> flash and something called 'futuresplash').  Now, I am concerned that
> installing a plugin as root will not confer that pluginality to my regular
> user account.  Is this the case?  How do plugins work, anyway?

When it installs as root though, it should install in the 'system-wide'
areas instead of in root's home directory.

> Second, about this JRE that I need -- isn't the point of a plugin that it
> is a self-contained unit that 'plugs in' to the browser, not requiring
> external support?  And if not, why would it attempt installation when a
> critical component was missing?  If it's going to try to do everything for
> me, without telling me anything about what it's doing (or even creating a
> failure log, AFAIK), it had better darn well work! </rant>

If you get the JRE, it comes with a mozilla plugin.  I figure I'd rather use
something built by the java people than something repackaged by another 
developer.  When *I* have installed these plugins in the past, I just put 
a symlink from the libjavaplugin_oji.so in the jre's directory into the
plugins directory for my browser.  For example, for me, that's in:

/usr/local/libexec/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

This might be somewhere else for you, since I'm not using a package manager
to manage my browser.



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Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>