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By lindylex at 2008-12-16 20:41
How to get Firefox 3/ All essential plugins to work like Windows/ Debian Lenny 64 Bit/ Will work on 32 bit also

Login as root
Code:
su
Update the system and change to directory “opt” and download Firefox 3

Code:
aptitude update
cd /opt
wget http://jp-nii02.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2
Uncompress Firefox 3
Code:
tar -xvjf  firefox-3.0.5.tar.bz2
Create a symbolic link to it, like a shortcut in Windows. This will place it in the OS path so you can launch Firefox from any where without having to reference the actual application.

Code:
cd /usr/bin/

ln -s  firefox3  /opt/firefox/firefox
Install Flash Plugin

Code:
aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla

cd /opt/firefox/plugins

ln -s libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Lets test the Flash plugin. We need to start Firefox 3.

Code:
firefox3
Then go to the the following url “about:plugins” and you should see.

Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12 .........

Go to the following url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4J5m3KE2X0 and test the flash player.

Install Java runtime environment.

You need to go here https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site...

Under “Platform:” choose Linux not Linux 64

Download this version of Java runtime environment 6u10 not 6u11 currently the latest is broken in Firefox3. You should have this file “jre-6u10-linux-i586.bin”

Let make it executable. Go to where you downloaded it and execute the following command.
Code:
chmod a+x jre-6u10-linux-i586.bin
sh re-6u10-linux-i586.bin
Now we need to move the contents that have been extracted from the .bin
Create the following directory if it does not exist.
Code:
mkdir /usr/lib/jvm/
Move the “/jre1.6.0_10” directory from the .bin to that location. You end up with a directory structure like the following.
“/usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_10/”

We need to make a symbolic link to the Java plugin. You should never copy the plugin from it's location only a symbolic link to it.
Code:
cd /opt/firefox/plugins
ln -s  libjavaplugin_oji.so  /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Now you can test the Java plugin.
www.time.gov and check the time or try this dancing Java animation. http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml?ff3

Install Real player plugin
Code:
cd  /opt

wget http://www.real.com/realcom/R?href=http://forms.real.com/real/player/dow...

chmod a+x RealPlayer11GOLD.bin

sh RealPlayer11GOLD.bin
Once this has extracted and you agreed to install and the license then it should install it's self to.
/opt/real/RealPlayer

We need to create a symbolic link to the plugin. This plugin should never be copied from its location into the Firefox plugins directory.

Code:
cd  /opt/firefox/plugins

ln -s nphelix.so  /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
ln -s nphelix.xpt  /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt
I have no test for this since it searches for a file type that end with “rpm” I have never encountered such a stream.

Install QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player
Code:
cd  /tmp

mkdir yourmama

cd yourmama

wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/m/mplayerplug-in/mozilla-mpla...

dpkg-deb -x  mozilla-mplayer_3.55-1.1_i386.deb /tmp/yourmama
Move the plugins to your Firefox plugins folder.

Code:
cp  /tmp/yourmama/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*.so  /opt/firefox/plugins

cp  /tmp/yourmama/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*.xpt  /opt/firefox/components
It is suggested you install the following “mplayerplug-in-0.4.xpi” but that file when I drag it into a Firefox window it does not install and gives an alert.

“"mplayerplug-in" will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates”

Test the plugins using the following urls.

Real
http://service.real.com/test/
Apple Quicktime
www.apple.com/trailers
Windows Media
http://www.vdat.com/techsupport/windowstest.asp
MPEG
ftp://ftp.tek.com/tv/test/streams/Element/index.html

Install PDF

Code:
aptitude install acroread acroread-escript acroread-plugins mozilla-acroread

cd  /opt/firefox/plugins

ln -s nppdf.so  /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so
Test the pdf plugin http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040a.pdf

If all went well your Firefox 3 will be able to view most streaming media and display other essential formats used on the web.

by techboy317 on Mon, 2016-11-28 13:46
To become root, type
Code:
sudo su


  



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