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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

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JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

Well, I just installed Arch Linux on a newer computer, and I've run into a few problems I didn't encounter with the old arch system I was running.  First, after installing firefox, I couldn't open it from the icon.  I had to change it from "firefox %u" to "/opt/mozilla/bin/firefox %u"

The next problem I encountered involves flash, jre, and other plugins.  Firefox isn't finding any of the plugins, even though they are installed.  In addition, OpenOffice.org isn't finding the JRE.

Any idea what's going on, and how to fix it?  And if it involves "changing paths", then could someone please explain to me how to do that?

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linuxlefty

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2007-04-27

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

are the plugins listed in /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins ?

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

The next problem I encountered involves flash, jre, and other plugins.  Firefox isn't finding any of the plugins, even though they are installed.  In addition, OpenOffice.org isn't finding the JRE.

Any idea what's going on, and how to fix it?  And if it involves "changing paths", then could someone please explain to me how to do that?

this is a bug in jre. see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=41512
first post.

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Falcata

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From: Michiana

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

Well, this seems to work quite well.  It not only fixed JRE, but mozplugger, flash, etc. as well.

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Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

My guess as to why you had to change the icon to call /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox directly is because it was a fresh install and Arch wasn't of this in your $PATH.  A logout/login would have solved this, or a source /etc/profile.

That would have updated your $PATH variable to include /opt/mozilla/bin.

Falcata

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From: Michiana

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

So I guess the moral of the story is "When in doubt, reboot."

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

not reboot - logout/login.  You hardly ever actually need to reboot in linux

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schivmeister

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-05-17

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

plugins path is /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

From flash package:

install -m755 $startdir/src/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so \
    $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins || return 1

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Extreme Coder

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Registered: 2008-03-11

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Re: JRE, Flash, other plugins not being found

Sorry for bumping, but what exactly is the fix to making FF see the missing plugins? (Flash, JRE, Mplayer)