Re: problems installing java
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:34:15AM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote:
> Well ... I don't know if there's a `debian-way' that could be used, but
> I installed it by downloading it from the web ...
>
> From the following address, I believe:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
>
> I use Mozilla Firebird, and there I had to put a symbolic link from a
> file `from java' to Mozilla Fb's plugin-folder. I think the file was
> '/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32'. Found out about it
> from a Mozilla.org page. I.e., for me it was done by "ln -s
> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/"
>
> I'd imagine Mozilla and Netscape would require a similar action;
> probably exactly the same. I haven't got a clue about konqueror though. ;)
>
> Oh, and this shouldn't be a problem for you, since you don't use
> Firebird, but this particular build of FB that debian `has' right now
> (unstable), has a bug that doesn't allow it to show java pages. So all
> of this didn't do me any good, I'll have to wait until debian starts
> updating their 'unstable' packages again. Heh. I'd imagine Mozilla
> doesn't have a bug like this.
>
I use the same version as you and java works fine. Maybe you should link
libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/ instead of
mozilla-firebird.
Cheers,
--
Zeng Nan
Simple is Beautiful.
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