[Ambulant-users] linux plugin not recognized

[Kees Blom]

Jack Jansen wrote:
>
> On 25 jun 2009, at 08:57, Federico Bruni wrote:
>
>> Kees Blom wrote:
>>> Hi Federico,
>>> I have no idea. It has worked in $HOME/mozilla/plugins on Fedora 8/10.
>>> I never saw nspluginwrapper work with plugins installed there.
>>> I've no experience with Ubuntu, but don't see why it would not work 
>>> there.
>>> You could check if the files are readable  and executable.
>>> One last thing to try: in Firefox File->Open Location, type: 
>>> about:plugins.
>>> npambulant should be listed when the plugin is installed.
>>
>> Hi Kees,
>>
>> thanks for your answer.
>> With regard to permissions, npambulant.so is set to 755 and 
>> npambulant.xpt *was* set to 644. Now it's 755 as well.
>>
>> But still, it does not work
>> about:plugins does not list Ambulant
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>
> Maybe you could try strace (or a similar tool) to see what Firefox is 
> doing. Something like "strace -e open firefox" should tell you all 
> files and directories that firefox opens, maybe it isn't looking in 
> the place where you stored the plugin... Hmm, the JS console may also 
> have information, try running firefox with the --jsconsole option.
> -- 
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
> Goldman
>
>
>
Now Ithink: missing libraries. npambulant,so may depend on dynamic 
libraries not installed by Ubuntu
or in a different place. We'll make another version of the code s.t. 
this "cannot happen" again.


Kees Blom.