I upgraded Mozilla on RH9 to 1.5. - Simultaniously to that I got a hair
up my butt trying to get some of the TTFonts to work under Linux. What I
ended up with is a new version of the browser in which the default fonts
all changed to Adobe and web pages looked awful.

I reset the Edit>Preferences>Appearence>Fonts to other choices which
brought back some semblence of order to my online experience however,

Now if I encounter a page that uses Flash/Shockwave some of it works and
some of it doesn't.

When I hit this link:
http://www.wired.com/animation/plugin.html

It is a plug-in tester which takes you thru several animations that
conclude if your browser is multi-media format compatible. The first one
is for Flash and the animation starts, the noise it is supposed to loop
starts but then my sound card stops and the system almost dies. I can
get Gnome to open panels but if I start a terminal it won't open.

I have to goto a shell on the b/w screens (Alt-Ctrl-F2) log-in and kill
mozilla before things come back.

The original Mozilla that came with RH9 is still on here too (I think).
It was installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 while the new one went to
/usr/local/mozilla

What type of conflict am I having? The "default" profile seems to be the
one that either Mozilla or netscape try to grab (located in my
/home/username dir). Yeah, I installed netscape too trying to find out
what the issue with the browser fonts might be.

One step forward, two steps back.
TIA.
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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:39:51 +0000, GregS typed:
quote:

> I upgraded Mozilla on RH9 to 1.5. - Simultaniously to that I got a hair
> up my butt trying to get some of the TTFonts to work under Linux. What I
> ended up with is a new version of the browser in which the default fonts
> all changed to Adobe and web pages looked awful.
>
> I reset the Edit>Preferences>Appearence>Fonts to other choices which
> brought back some semblence of order to my online experience however,
>
> Now if I encounter a page that uses Flash/Shockwave some of it works and
> some of it doesn't.
>
> When I hit this link:
> http://www.wired.com/animation/plugin.html
>
> It is a plug-in tester which takes you thru several animations that
> conclude if your browser is multi-media format compatible. The first one
> is for Flash and the animation starts, the noise it is supposed to loop
> starts but then my sound card stops and the system almost dies. I can
> get Gnome to open panels but if I start a terminal it won't open.
>
> I have to goto a shell on the b/w screens (Alt-Ctrl-F2) log-in and kill
> mozilla before things come back.
>
> The original Mozilla that came with RH9 is still on here too (I think).
> It was installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 while the new one went to
> /usr/local/mozilla
>
> What type of conflict am I having? The "default" profile seems to be the
> one that either Mozilla or netscape try to grab (located in my
> /home/username dir). Yeah, I installed netscape too trying to find out
> what the issue with the browser fonts might be.


How RPM or tar? The RPM's for Red Hat Linux 9 are here;
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....dhat/9
/
Haven't tried them myself (compiled my own).

Figure out which mozilla-1.2.1 RPM's you have installed;

$ rpm -qa | grep mozilla

Download the 1.5 RPM's needed for the upgrade to a common location and
install them at one time as root;

$ rpm -Fvh mozilla*.rpm

Copy the plugins (except the libnullplugin) from
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

The TTFonts should work however, if your looking for a set of msfont RPM's
to make viewing web pages nicer try looking at; http://rpm.pbone.net/ for;

msfonts-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm and msfonts-style-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm

As far a test site for plugins this one's more complete;

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/brow...tcases/plugins/


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Lenard wrote:
quote:

> On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:39:51 +0000, GregS typed:
>

<snip'd>
quote:

> 
[QUOTE] 

</snip'd>
[QUOTE]
>
> How RPM or tar? The RPM's for Red Hat Linux 9 are here;
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....dhat
/9/
> Haven't tried them myself (compiled my own).


I had only downloaded one RPM and it wasn't from this site. The file was
called "mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5.sea.tar.gz" - When unpacked it
seemed to install OK but as I followed your instructions below....
quote:

>
> Figure out which mozilla-1.2.1 RPM's you have installed;
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep mozilla
>


This listed several distinct rpm's related to 1.2.1 (i.e.  nss, nsspr, ....)

Now it reads:
mozilla-mail-1.5-1
mozilla-nspr-1.5-1
mozilla-nss-1.5-1
mozilla-1.5-1

quote:

> Download the 1.5 RPM's needed for the upgrade to a common location and
> install them at one time as root;
>
> $ rpm -Fvh mozilla*.rpm


Did this, although had to use the wild card instead of one at a time,
because it seems that dependancies were not being picked up from my
attempt as installing one rpm at a time.

quote:

>
> Copy the plugins (except the libnullplugin) from
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>


Did this, although under 1.2.1 there wasn't a "libnullplugin" . There
was under 1.5-1

The plugin test's still do not work for Shockwave. I'm led to the same
site in which I've downloaded either the RPM or a tarball.

When I try to install the rpm manually, it looks like this:

rpm -Fvh flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm
warning: flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
8df56d05

So it appears to not install.

When I unpack the tarball "install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz" and then
run the installer from the directory that it creates, all seems to run
OK. When I fire up a browser and go back to the link that I mention
above to see if the flash stuff works, the animation works with sound
through one loop then hangs the X session again.

I can go back to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login as root and kill mozilla
and life is good again.
quote:

> The TTFonts should work however, if your looking for a set of msfont RPM's
> to make viewing web pages nicer try looking at; http://rpm.pbone.net/ for;
>
> msfonts-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm and msfonts-style-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm
>
> As far a test site for plugins this one's more complete;
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/brow...tcases/plugins/
>
>

The TTFonts that I've tried to use include the standard delivered
windows font "Comic Sans", which does show up on the screen, it just has
horrible kerning (i.e. space between letters) and the anti-aliasing
either is nonexistent or the shape of the the basic letterforms are
messed up.

I've just got an auto-update on RH9 of Xfree with font stuff so I
haven't tried anything yet to see if it's changed beyond last week.

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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:02:29 +0000 GregS wrote:
quote:

> Lenard wrote: 
> <snip'd>
> 
> 
>
> </snip'd>
> 
>
> I had only downloaded one RPM and it wasn't from this site. The file was
> called "mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5.sea.tar.gz" - When unpacked it
> seemed to install OK but as I followed your instructions below....
> 
>
> This listed several distinct rpm's related to 1.2.1 (i.e.  nss, nsspr, ...
.)
>
> Now it reads:
> mozilla-mail-1.5-1
> mozilla-nspr-1.5-1
> mozilla-nss-1.5-1
> mozilla-1.5-1
>
> 
>
> Did this, although had to use the wild card instead of one at a time,
> because it seems that dependancies were not being picked up from my
> attempt as installing one rpm at a time.
>
> 
>
> Did this, although under 1.2.1 there wasn't a "libnullplugin" . There
> was under 1.5-1
>
> The plugin test's still do not work for Shockwave. I'm led to the same
> site in which I've downloaded either the RPM or a tarball.
>
> When I try to install the rpm manually, it looks like this:
>
> rpm -Fvh flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm
> warning: flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 8df56d05
>
> So it appears to not install.


Warning does not mean to abort the installation. It's just an information
that you have not the key in your rpm keyring  imported.
quote:

> When I unpack the tarball "install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz" and then
> run the installer from the directory that it creates, all seems to run
> OK. When I fire up a browser and go back to the link that I mention
> above to see if the flash stuff works, the animation works with sound
> through one loop then hangs the X session again.
>
> I can go back to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login as root and kill mozilla
> and life is good again.
> 
> The TTFonts that I've tried to use include the standard delivered
> windows font "Comic Sans", which does show up on the screen, it just has
> horrible kerning (i.e. space between letters) and the anti-aliasing
> either is nonexistent or the shape of the the basic letterforms are
> messed up.
>
> I've just got an auto-update on RH9 of Xfree with font stuff so I
> haven't tried anything yet to see if it's changed beyond last week.


Alexander


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