Some info on mozilla plugin packaging for ubuntu ...

Thursday, January 8. 2009

Posted by asac (Alexander Sack) in Ubuntu Mozillateam at 14:20 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Ever wondered how to get your plugin in the ubufox plugin finder wizard? Or ever asked yourself, what the Xb-Npp- fields mean that most plugin packages have in their debian/control entry? Even wondered which directory to link your plugin .so files to in order to make them available for all the packaged mozilla apps?

To give you some answers, there finally is a wiki page about the most important packaging magics you should remember when dealing with mozilla plugin packages in ubuntu:

Read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Plugins

Just ask if there are open points you would like to see addressed or clarified. We obviously can populate that wiki page with even more valuable content. Or just do it yourself

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One thing which needs to be better clarified is how to make packages which behave well in both Debian AND Ubuntu

My cheap hack in moon is:
DISTRO = "$(shell lsb_release -si)"
XULRUNNER_19_PLUGDIR = "usr/lib/mozilla/plugins"
ifeq ($(DISTRO),"Ubuntu")
XULRUNNER_19_PLUGDIR = "usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins"
endif

Then in the binary-arch rule, dh_link is called manually using that var

Is there a Right Way™?

#1 Jo Shields (Homepage) on 2009-01-08 15:29 (Reply)

this mozilla firefox 3.1 beta 2 – http://file.sh/firefox+3.1+torrent.html its runing to slow on my computer and how do you activate private browsing yo didnt said nothing about that

#2 darant (Homepage) on 2009-05-20 09:24 (Reply)

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