Re: How to install java plugin?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> jqdkf@zju.edu.cn wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I download jre from sun's web site, then extract it, and link that
> > plugin to mozilla/plugins/lib*.so. I have read the install file
> > carefully and tried many times, but I can't make it work. Does anyone 
> > give me some ideas?
> > I use mozilla 1.0.0.
> >
> > Zeng Nan
> >
> >
> >  
> I just updated a Sid box from about 6 months ago that's never had Java 
> on it.
>
> After the update, I went to www.blackdown.org and downloaded the JDK 
> for gcc3.x, ran it in a tmp directory to unzip it, moved the resulting 
> directory to /usr/local, and made a symlink from 
> /usr/local/j2.....plugins..java...so to /usr/lib/mozilla/...plugins 
> and restarted Moz, and bang, all's good.
>
> As shown by this java site:
> http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/03/index.html
Oops; actually that page is probably Flash instead of Java; I installed 
it at the same time I did Java and didn't think to make the distinction. 
I only included the link because it's a pretty neat "handwritten clock".

One of the games at http://www.popcap.com/ should be a valid test of Java.

--
Kent