On Nov 11, 2007 10:12 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:28:37 -0500 > Claude Jones <cjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was having the same problem. I decided to update my two > > machines on F7 using yum. Both went off without great > > complications overnight. They both have 'issues' this morning, > > but they seem fairly trivial, so far. > > I decided to bite the bullet and did a scratch install of F8 x86_64 on this > computer. The format and initial installation took only an hour or so. I've > been copying data and putting Humpty Dumpty back together again ever since. > > The only three things that I have left to do are to compile Scribus (the one > that's included in the F8 repository is 1.3.4 which is the development version > and not recommended for production work), set up LTSP so my terminal will > work again, and figure out how to make the plugins work with this new Firefox. > I see that I have only NPAPI Plugins Wrapper and GCJ Web Browser Plugin at the > moment. I did install the Livna mplayerplug-in rpm so I wonder what happened > to that... > Mplayer plugin got installed in the usual place, /user/lib/mozilla/plugins/, on my system. I needed to copy the files over to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins before they appeared. > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
