Re: Getting my plugin to install

"Michael Rutman" <moose@manicmoose.com> writes:

> I am  porting my  plugin from Firefox/Safari  to Opera.   The plugin
> mostly works, just down to two issues.
>
> The first one that I absolutely need solved is how to get the plugin
> to install.
>
> What do I  need to do to  get Opera to recognize that  it is missing
> the plugin and download it?

Did you place your  plug-in (.so file) in /usr/lib/opera/plugins/ this
is one of the directories that Opera searches for plugins.

Check  /usr/share/opera/ini/pluginpath.ini --  this is  a list  of all
directories that Opera searches.

You can  start Opera  from the commandline  w/ -debugplugin  to ensure
that Opera is finding your plugin.

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"Michael Rutman" <moose@manicmoose.com> writes:

> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:24:56 -0500, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:
>
>> "Michael Rutman" <moose@manicmoose.com> writes:
>>
>>> I am  porting my  plugin from Firefox/Safari  to Opera.   The
plugin
>>> mostly works, just down to two issues.
>>>
>>> The first one that I absolutely need solved is how to get the
plugin
>>> to install.
>>>
>>> What do I  need to do to  get Opera to recognize that  it is
missing
>>> the plugin and download it?
>>
>> Did you place your  plug-in (.so file) in /usr/lib/opera/plugins/ this
>> is one of the directories that Opera searches for plugins.
>>
>> Check  /usr/share/opera/ini/pluginpath.ini --  this is  a list  of all
>> directories that Opera searches.
>>
>> You can  start Opera  from the commandline  w/ -debugplugin  to ensure
>> that Opera is finding your plugin.
>>
>
> Let me clarify a bit.

My error.  I 'assume' everybody runs GNU/Linux. ;-) I know squat about
any other OSs.  Maybe somebody else will address your questions.

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I am porting my plugin from Firefox/Safari to Opera.  The plugin mostly  
works, just down to two issues.

The first one that I absolutely need solved is how to get the plugin to  
install.

What do I need to do to get Opera to recognize that it is missing the  
plugin and download it?

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:24:56 -0500, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:

> "Michael Rutman" <moose@manicmoose.com> writes:
>
>> I am  porting my  plugin from Firefox/Safari  to Opera.   The plugin
>> mostly works, just down to two issues.
>>
>> The first one that I absolutely need solved is how to get the plugin
>> to install.
>>
>> What do I  need to do to  get Opera to recognize that  it is missing
>> the plugin and download it?
>
> Did you place your  plug-in (.so file) in /usr/lib/opera/plugins/ this
> is one of the directories that Opera searches for plugins.
>
> Check  /usr/share/opera/ini/pluginpath.ini --  this is  a list  of all
> directories that Opera searches.
>
> You can  start Opera  from the commandline  w/ -debugplugin  to ensure
> that Opera is finding your plugin.
>

Let me clarify a bit.

I am talking about a commercial product that has to install itself on our  
end users computers.  Because Opera is also used in many embedded devices  
we expect to have quite a few users that have no idea what a command line  
is as well as many users that do not have any command line or ability to  
manually change the file system.

Now, on Firefox and IE our product brings up a dialog and the user clicks  
install and the browser does the right thing.  Safari is a pain because  
all we can do is bring up a dialog that downloads a dmg and autolaunches  
it.  The installer in the dmg then walks the user through installation.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:46:00 -0500, Robt. W. Fletcher Jr <me@wa.us>
wrote:

> My error.  I 'assume' everybody runs GNU/Linux. ;-) I know squat about
> any other OSs.  Maybe somebody else will address your questions.
>


Well, that's a good starting point.

If you were to use Opera/Linux, a platform I'd like to support, how,  
exactly, would you install our plugin?

With Firefox you would get a dialog asking you if you wanted to install