Re: Help with java in firefox

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:51:29 +0200, Eduard Bosma <eduard.bosma@stork.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 21:04, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:56:55 -0400, Jim Lynch <jwl@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > Same thing with testing.  I installed the plugin three different ways
> > > and firefox still doesn't know about them.
> > > 1. I clicked on the window that said "to install plugin click here" or
> > > words to that effect.  That put the .so file in /usr/local/xxx somewhere
> > > I believe.
> > > 2. I got the jre14 from Sun as the plugin faq suggested and followed the
> > > faq instructions.  I put the .so file in the "system" location per the
> > > instructions.
> > > 3.  I copied the .so file into my ~/.mozilla/plugins directory
> > >
> > > None of those methods did a thing.
> > >
> >
> > You probably need to copy/link the libjavaplugin_oji.so in
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/, to do this in a clean way i suggest
> > you to install the "java-package" and use it to build a Debian package
> > from the SUN SDK or JRE tarball...
> >
> >
> > Andrea
> > 
> >From what I read in the instructions on the mozilla/firefox plug in
> site, you should definitely NOT copy thew .so file, but link it
> instead...
> 

Right, my error.


Andrea