Re: mozilla and plugins

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Csányi Pál wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:40:18PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
>
> > When I try to reach a page with mozilla Version: 2:1.7.5-1, I get:
> >
> > this page contains information of type (application/x-java-vm) that can only
> >
> > be viewed with the appropriate plug-in
> >
> > In which package is this plug-in ? 
>
>  
> It isn't in any package (on Woody). 


Nor on Sarge, I think. I do what Csányi says, even more, I just compile 
the latest mozilla browser and download whatever plugins and put them 
into the plugin directory.


> You can download it from http://www.sun.com
> Then run the downloaded
> j2re-version_number-linux-i586.bin
> file, and make the approppriate symbolic links in
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/ 
> directory:
>
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> 
> J2RE-version/j2re_version/plugin/i386/ns4/libjavaplugin.so
>
> ~/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> J2RE-version/j2re_version/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> Then start your browser (Mozilla), and see if the plugins are there:
> Help / About Plug-ins