Insane trouble with mplayerplugin
 

Been trying to get mplayer's plugin to work on a friends mandrake 10.1, and it's just being the biggest nightmare i've seen since i began with linux.

We can't get it to run in either Mozilla or Firefox.

So far, we have tried:

1. Installing from URPMI

2. Updating URPMI with new media and installing from a new version

3. Running an RPM install from a downloaded rpm

4. ./configure - make - make install (Not sure what to call this process, binary compiling?)

5. Attempted to use mozplugger and plugger for mozilla


Still, after all of this none of them are working. The RPM's seem to install but the pluging are nowhere to be found. The same goes for the attempted use of mozplugger and plugger. When we have tried to compile the binaries on our own, we have had insane trouble upon the "make" step, where we literally get over 3 pages worth of errors relating to it apparently not finding the X11 headers, and having an incredible number of errors in something I believe called "Source/plugin.h" or similar. Whenever we tried to install the xorg-devel for the headers, it would say that a dependency was missing, list some file we can not find that exists, and fail. (I believe it was some lib file, but it was using a very strange naming syntax and I can't remember it's name currently as i'm not at his computer.

Does anyone have any ideas or have experience with these problems? Or perhaps can give me a little nudge in the right direction?

Thanks

The tarballs will interfere with the RPM programs.

UNINSTALL everything then re-install only via URPMI.

Now the reason you may be having a problem is that they plugin folder is located one place, while the actual Browser you are running may be looking for the plugins somewhere else.

This is fairly typical, and I've yet to see a Linux distro where-in I did not have to manually adjust the plugin folders.

Usually all that's needed is a symlink from your browsers plugin directory to the directory into which the plugins were actually dropped.

Well so far i've been unable to even locate a file anywhere on the computer that looked like the plugin. I assume it will be a .so, right?

lib/mozilla/plugins
lib/mozilla-xxxx/plugins

etc.

Thanks a ton! we have been using locate to try to find the file... but it just was not showing up for some reason. I guess we just missed somehting along of the installs

Remember to

nohup updatedb &

Every once in a while if your machine is not up 24/7, to let it update the locate database.