DvB muttered: > Paul Mackinney wrote: > > Jens Gecius uttered: > There's something seriously messed up with debian/mozilla/java. However, > I found the following usenet thread which helped me get mine working > (I'm using the blackdown jre from testing with mozilla nightlies). The > only thing I had to do was make the libXt.so symlink and java worked for > me. If you can get it working without setting ASSUME_KERNEL, I would > strongly recommend not setting it... > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mozilla+java+debian+symlink&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&ic=1&selm=4A9886ADB0%25news%40youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid
This did the trick. Specifically, here's how I got Mozilla 0.9.2 running with Java VM for the first time ever on my Woody system with j2sdk 1.4.0 installed: 1. Logged in as root, specifying Gnome session from gdm. 2. Used Netscape 4.77 to Download the lastest Mozilla nightly talkback build: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz 3. Opened a term window, installed mozilla and launched it: # tar zxf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz # cd mozilla-installer # ./moz*installer 4. Mozilla launches itself at the end of the install. Linux Plugin" button; let it do it's thing. 5. Quit Mozilla. 6. Create the following symlinks, your paths may vary: # link -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so # link -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 /usr/local/mozilla/libXt.so 7. Restart, log in a a normal user, browse away. Thanks everyone who helped make this possible. Note that you might want to save the symlink commands in a script, since updating the mozilla nightly build nukes the old version. Paul