Re: How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Scarletdown wrote:
>  Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > On 03 Aug 2004, Kent West wrote:
> >
> > > Alejandro Matos wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I've installed Java and made a symlink in 
> > > > > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to where javaplugin.so is located 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Which folder? i think there is 2 folders inside "plugins"... Saludos 
> > > > Alejandro 
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, what are the permissions on the Java folder/file? Also, where'd 
> > > you get Java? how'd you install it? 
>
> I installed via apt-get install j2re1.4

Last I knew, Java wasn't free enough to be in the official Debian 
repositories, which indicates you have a non-official source in your apt 
sources.list file.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing; but it indicates another piece of 
info you might want to provide; what's the source of your Java?



> And I just now uninstalled it and installed the latest version 
> downloaded from Sun, installing it to /usr/share/java/.
>
> > Have a look at http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml Very useful 
> > site which explains things clearl. Note that, for firefox (not sure 
> > about mozilla) the link needs to go in 
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so. For the current 
> > version of firefox you need to link to the ns610-gcc32 version. 
>
>
> I created the link in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ via
> ln -s 
> /usr/share/java/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/javaplugin_oji.so
> It still doesn't work.  And here is what I get with about:plugins

<snip>

> No sign of the Java plugin at all.


Here's what I do. I download the appropriate bin from blackdown.org 
(although Sun should work fine also).

I then run the file in my home directory as a normal user.

I then move the entire newly created j2sdk1.4.2 directory to /usr/local.

I then change the permissions on the folder:
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  staff  4096 2003-12-17 00:13 j2sdk1.4.2

I do this in two stages; I chown the directory, recursively, to give 
every file root.staff ownership; I then chmod only the directory to the 
above perms.

I then do the symlink:

> westk[@westkent.acu.edu]:/home/westk:> ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 66 2004-03-01 11:10 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so

hth

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Kent



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Kent West
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