Java on RH 9 & Mozilla

[drkrdr]

I am a fairly Newbie Linux user. On my PIII, 500Mhz, 10GB HDD, 196 MB RAM Laptop, I have installed Linux RH 9 and all of the latest security updates. It is not for production, just as an experiment and learning Linux.

I wanted to use Mozilla 1.2.1 with Java and installed JRE 1.4 (Std edition 1.4.2_03, Def Virt Machine Vers 1.4.2_03-b02, Java Plug-in 1.4.2_03). I do get the Java console in my menues (using mainly Gnome as GUI) but when I try to use Mozilla with Java pages, it still complains about missing plug-in. The About Plug-in says that I have only installed the default plug-in libnullplugin.

I have followed the recommendations as of

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.jsp

I have made a symbolic link at /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins to /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so called libjavaplugin_oji.so and checked that the link is not broken.

I must say I am confused by the fact that there exists a file structure under /usr/java../plugin and a file structure .../java under Mozilla's file structure with similar but not exactly the same content

 

[ady2k]

Download mozilla 1.5, j2re 1.4.2-5 and mozilla j2re 1.4.2-5 rpm packages
from this website :

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/

subdirectory : /mozilla and /mozilla-j2re
That should work fine. I have tried it
Good Luck..

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

Instaed of ns610-gcc32 try ns610. That might work.

iSeriesCodePoet
iSeries Programmer/Lawson Software Administrator

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See my progress to converting to linux.

http://linux.koldark.net

 

[drkrdr]

I made a mistake linking the Mozilla plugin to the Java directory. When I linked it to the Mozilla Java directory it worked to the extent that I could start Java in the browser. It didn't fully function (launching the yahoo geocities Page Builder tool, the app complained about Linux and when I try to open a file from the tool, I only get a small icon, not the window I expected) so I might try the installation recommended by ady2k, thanks.