Re: Installing java plugin

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 11/05/03 

Date: 5 Nov 2003 00:34:10 GMT

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:06:00 GMT, Bill H. staggered into the Black Sun
> I am running RH 9 on my computer at home. I've been trying to install
> the Java Run-Time Environment, and allow Mozilla to use java applets
> on web sites.

People still use Java applets to do things? I thought they gave that up
as a bad job in mid-late 2000...

> So far, I think I've installed JRE

Either you have, or you haven't. Which is it?

> I think I need to link a java plugin file (jplugin.so or something
> similar) to a folder in Mozilla.

I installed the Blackdown JRE and this is what I did:

Find the plugin. It's called javaplugin_oji.so , so I used "locate" and
found it in /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/ .
YInstallationMV.

ln -s /PATH/TO/javaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so

Restart Mozilla, enter about:plugins into the URL bar to make sure the
Java plugin was loaded.

> The instructions I found on the Java web site tell me create a
> symbolic link to the "Netscape" folder, but I can't seem to find the
> java plugin file.

Are you sure the JRE is installed?

> Also, shouldn't I link it to Mozilla?

Yes, if you plan to use Mozilla.

> Anyhow, I'm just a little lost and need a little guidance from
> somebody who's done this.

If you create the symlink, restart Mozilla, and you don't see the Java
plugin displayed in about:plugins , try starting Mozilla from a command
line in an xterm. That'll print diagnostic messages to stderr if a
plugin can't be loaded. I did this and found that the old Blackdown
plugin (version 1.3.1) wasn't compatible with something or other in
Mozilla 1.4. The 1.4.1 plugin worked fine. HTH, 

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