[Squeakland] Mozilla Plugin and Debian (Linux)

[JP Glutting]

Ok. I have a .npsqueak directory, with two empty directories in it:
secure/ and untrusted/, so it looks like the process got strated and
stopped at  some point.

The file /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so calls
/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueakrun, which I do have, so that seems to
be fine.

When I run npsqueakrun by hand, it says it can't find
/usr/lib/squeak/squeak.image, which is because I don't have one. I do
have squeak.image.gz, which is a symlink to Squeak3.6-5429.image.gz.
Can squeak use compressed images? Should it try?

I am going to try unzipping it and symlinking the result...

Well, that was not so great. It complained that it could not find
/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/SqueakV3.sources (which it didn't, because the
sources file is in /usr/lib/squeak, one directory up), and then opened
the whole Squeak desktop in the browser.

Now I symlink SqueakV3.sources from the 3.6-3 sub-directory:

Nope, now it complains that it cannot locate SqueakPlugin.changes. I
can't locate it either, so I am oging to call it quits. I have the
flu, so when I am feeling a little better, I am just going to purge
all the squeak .debs and try again with version 3.7.5-beta.

Thanks again for all the help!

JP


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:23:46 +0100, Bert Freudenberg <bert at squeakland.de> wrote:
> Am 25.01.2005 um 16:33 schrieb JP Glutting:
> 
> > I am still trying to get the Squeak plugin to work in Debian. I have
> > version 3.6-3 installed (from .debs), and the desktop environment
> > works fine.
> >
> > I downloaded a npsqueak-image installer, and went through the install
> > script to find out what to do. It seems that there is a script in
> > /usr/lib/squeak called npsqueakregister that needs to be run. (the
> > install script actually was looking in /usr/local/lib/, but the .debs
> > put squeak in /usr/lib, which should be fine).
> >
> > The npsqueakregister script looks for
> > /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so, which I have.
> >
> > The script, when run, gives this message:
> >
> > File not found: /usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so
> > Aborting.
> >
> > It seems that the permissions on npsqueak.so are not set correctly. It
> > is set with permissions 644 [rw-r--r--], when the file needs to be
> > executable. The npsqueakregister script is actually checking to see if
> > npsqueak.so is an executable file (if [ ! -x "$NPSQUEAK_SO" ] ), and
> > exits with an error message if it is not.
> >
> > I changed the permissions on npsqueak.so [chmod a+x npqueak.so]
> >
> > The npsqueakregister script then produces:
> >
> > Registering /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npsqueak.so
> > create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npsqueak.so' to
> > `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> > Registering /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npsqueak.so
> > create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/npsqueak.so' to
> > `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> > Registering /usr/lib/mozilla-snapshot/plugins/npsqueak.so
> > create symbolic link `/usr/lib/mozilla-snapshot/plugins/npsqueak.so'
> > to `/usr/lib/squeak/3.6-3/npsqueak.so'
> >
> > Which looks great. However, I still can't run any .pr files in the
> > browser. I just get a blank, white page, with the message "Done" in
> > the status bar. This is what happened with OS X when the plugin was
> > not working as well.
> >
> > On the positive side, Squeak is registered as a plugin (it registers
> > sts, sqo and pr files, while OS X only only registers sts and pr
> > files).
> 
> Rejoice, you're almost there :-)
> 
> > I am going to keep twiddling with this, and try to figure out what
> > went wrong. Any suggestions welcome.
> 
> So the plugin is loaded, it now tries to start the VM with image file.
> After you tried to load a project in the browser, did the .npsqueak
> directory in your home get created? If yes, then the npsqueak.so plugin
> succesfully executed the npsqueakrun script in
> /usr/lib/squeak/<version>. If not, make sure that file exists (you
> might want to look into the npsqueak.so binary for which script it
> actually tries to execute using
> 
>         strings npsqueak.so | grep npsqueakrun
> 
> The script creates some directories in $HOME/.npsqueak and copies the
> plugin image file from /usr/lib/squeak. After that, it executes the
> regular Squeak VM with the image copy, but redirects the main window
> into the browser page.
> 
> You might try a newer VM (3.7b-5 from http://squeak.hpl.hp.com/unix/)
> and the current image
> (http://squeakland.org/installers/SqueakPlugin.image.zip, extract that
> into ~/.npsqueak/).
> 
> I'm cc'ing Jens Lincke who is currently updating the Squeakland Linux
> packages (the download at squeakland is rather dated). We fixed a few
> oddities and might even have some shiny new debs for you :-) Also cc'ed
> is Ian so he knows what's going on.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 


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