Re: How to install Java in Mozilla under Debian?
I have Sun's JDK 1.3 and 1.3.0_01, not Blackdown's. Java works fine outside
of Mozilla, and even in Netscape 4 with the plugin. But when I tried to follow
your suggestion and linked the Netscape 4 plugin to the Mozilla directory,
it crashed whenever I went to about:plugins or a Java page. The Netscape 6 /
Mozilla plugin that comes with JDK 1.3.0_01 does not crash Mozilla, and it
shows up in the about:plugins page, but Java pages still prompt me to install
the plugin. What could be wrong?
Is the problem that I'm using the Debian package of Mozilla, which is not
a nightly build but release M18, package revision number 3? If so, how do I
install either a nightly build or Mozilla 0.7 in a shared, write-protected
(for normal users) directory such as /usr/local/mozilla or /usr/lib/mozilla?
The release notes say to install it separately for each user.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:21:31AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2001 19:52, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > Hello. I have Debian unstable - reasonably current - and therefore Mozilla
> > M18-3. I've downloaded Sun's Java 2 SDK 1.3.0_01, which includes the Java
> > Plugin for Netscape 6/Mozilla. How do I install this plugin to work best
> > with the Debian Mozilla setup, which of course is shoehorned into the
> > Debian pattern (very admirably, might I add)? All my attempts have resulted
> > in the Java Plugin showing up in Mozilla's about:plugins listing but me
> > still being prompted to install the plugin when I visit the JRE's
> > ControlPanel.html, which uses the plugin.
> >
> > Any and all help is appreciated.
> >
> > - Jimmy Kaplowitz
> > jimmy@kaplowitz.org
>
> I'm using the nightly builds of Mozilla ... so my mozilla directory is
> /usr/local/mozilla. That out of the way, the easiest way to get java on your
> machine, IMO is to add a sources.list line ... I use
>
> deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian
> woody non-free
>
> After running an update, you can do an apt-get install j2sdk1.3 ... when it
> gets done downloading you'll have a
> /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/javaplugin.so file. What I do is make a symlink
> to this file ... i.e. ln -si /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/javaplugin.so
> /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/
>
> When Mozilla fires up, it now has Java support. Most java things work fine
> over here.
>
> Sean
>
>
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