Re: Mozilla Java Plugin

[Chong Yu Meng]

You will want to be careful because there are some incompatibilities 
with respect to Mozilla, RH and the Java Plugins: There are 2 versions 
of the j2re out there -- one compiled for gcc 3.x platforms (RH9 and 
equivalents) and one for gcc 2.95 platforms (RH8 and "non-mainstream" 
Linuxes like TurboLinux). If you are using RH9 and Mozilla 1.4 (from the 
tarball, not sure about the rpm), you will need the Blackdown Java 
Runtime Environment 
(ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin). 
The reason for this is: Mozilla 1.4 is compiled with gcc 3.x and will 
*not* work with  JRE's compiled with gcc 2.9x.

The steps for installing the Plug-In are as described by Collins Richey.

I spent a lot of time trying to fix this problem some time ago, and even 
mistakenly advised a colleague not to use Mozilla if he wanted to use 
Java applets.

Maybe time to update the SxS huh ?

Regards,
pascal chong


Collins Richey wrote:

On 03 Oct 2003 13:32:43 -0400 Allan Rabenau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 

I have installed RH 9, and am using Mozilla 1.2.1.  I have downloaded
Java j2re-1_4_2.01 and would like to add it as a plugin to the Mozilla,
but I can't find any instructions.  There is an sxs addressing this
idea, but it refers to files that are not in this release; it may be out
of date.  There is a "How to Set Up Mozilla" sxs but when it comes to
java it simply says "Install Acrobat, JRE or JDE".  I assume I have to
make a link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but have tried several .so files
that I could find in the j2re folders, to no avail.  Can anyone assist?
   

Put the following link in /path/to/mozilla/plugins 

javaplugin_oji.so ->
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
Adjust the reference as required for your java version.

 



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