[OU] Manually install plugins

[Hanne E. Larsen]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:00:55 +0200, hce <webmail.hce at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

According to our Unix QA:

Prefs > advanced > content > plugin options > change path > add  
/home/vlc/Install/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Then "find new plugins".

If it still doesn't show, start with `opera -debugplugin` and see what it  
tells you...

Regards,
Hanne