Firefox 3/ All essential plugins/ Debian Lenny 64 Bit/ Will work on 32 bit also
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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.
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
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”
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