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Jameson
11-26-2004, 04:00 AM
In order to install a paticular Java plugin for Firefox it said I needed to use a symbolic link in the plugins directory.. Could someone explain how to symbolically link? I found some articals on google but I was lost in the terminology.

Thanks in Advance!

-Jameson

eadz
11-26-2004, 05:22 AM
A symbolic link ( or symlink ) is like a shortcut in windows.

You can make them in the GUI ( KDE ) by draging and droping, but i'll explain how to do it on the command line.

The command is 'ln' - link. And the option is '-s' for symbolic. So ..

ln -s /home/some/fileordirectory /home/the/target
( from ) (to)

Hope this helps.

Jameson
11-26-2004, 09:07 PM
Hey,

I finialy got it working! Thanks eadz



-Jameson