On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 22:55, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002-10-20 03:35:06 +0100]: > > In answer to Tom, no, it shouldn't be a recommended package for mozilla > > because mozilla itself doesn't need it at all. The installation > > instructions for whatever provides libjavaplugin_oji.so should mention > > the libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package for Debian. > > If I guess correctly this installation of java is the Sun version. > The ns600 says for netscape 6.x. Those installation instructions are > very generic and say nothing about dependencies. In fact it is really > a pain to install because they put a wrapper around the installer to > force a click through on the Sun license. > > Bob Extending on that, Sun Java 1.4 offers separate plugins for Netscape 4 family, Netscape 6 (early Mozilla milestones) and Netscape 6.10 and later (any Mozilla in probably the last 18 months or more.) IBM Java 1.3 still uses just the one plugin (although I'm not sure how up-to-date that is - I should go digging around the IBM developer's areas and exercise my Partner membership for some freebies ;), and the Sun Java 1.3 I have is still using only the one plugin. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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