[OU] Manually install plugins

[hce]

On 9/5/08, Hanne E. Larsen <hela at opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:50:33 +0200, hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > I compiled opera to my local directory of the Debian box and I also
>  > build VLC from source locally. Can I manually install VLC plugin to
>  > opera, rather than from a Debian binary?
>
>
> According to our Unix QA it's possible. Since you compiled VLC, you just
>  need to `make install`, or something like `make installplugin` - maybe you
>  additionally also has to copy the plugin .so to a location that you'll
>  have opera inspect for plugins (prefs > advanced > content > plugins).

Thanks Hanne. I did following link to
/home/operabrowser/Install/lib/opera/plugins

libvlcplugin.so -> /home/vlc/Install/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so

I restarted opera, but the vlc plugin did not show in prefs > advanced
> content > plugins. What I could be wrong here?

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Jim