LabVIEW RTE 6.1 for Linux. HowTo?

I want to use the Plug-In from this package with Netscape
6.0 to access a remote panel. Works fine on a Windows
machine with the RTE for Windows. But every time I open
the same page with Netscape 6 within Debian Linux I get
the following message:
This page contains information of a type (application/x-labviewrpvi) than can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-In.
Although I installed the RTE for Linux and made a Symbolic link in .netscape/plugins ti LVNPlugin.so this
message will not go away?
What's wrong? Can anyony help?
Thanks in advance,
Armin Herzer

Armin,
Is it OK for you to actually copy the LVNPlugin.so to .../netscape/plugins? This is what I have done on the support machines here in Applications Engineering and it works great. I have Netscape 6.2 installed in /usr/local/netscape so I have the plugin copied to /usr/local/netscape/plugins/LVNPlugin.so. Try updating your Netscape to see if that helps as well. The message you are getting means that Netscape does not even see the plugin.
Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
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http://www.ni.com/ask

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