pluginappletviewer location/installation

[Matthew Flaschen]

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> I use the IcedTea version of gcjwebplugin by symlinking it to my
>> ~/.plugins.  By default, this will give an error like:
>>
>> gcjwebplugin error: Failed to run
>> /home/user/IcedTea/hg/../../bin/pluginappletviewer.  For more detail
>> rerun "firefox -g" in a terminal window.
> 
> You're linking to the wrong copy of gcjwebplugin.so.  Here's how I
> install it:
> 
> ln -s
> /notnfs/fitzsim/sources/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/j2sdk-image/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Okay, thanks.  That should work.  Can I ask why a copy of
gcjwebplugin.so is built to the main directory?

Matt Flaschen