Re: Which Java for RH 9

[Nigel Wade <nmw ion le ac uk>]

Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:47, Leila Lappin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > You can just download the latest j2se and jre libs.  I
> > have done this a number of times (for initial and
> > subsequent upgrades) and I never had a problem.
> >
> > Leila
>
>
> Hi Leila,
>
> I just downloaded j2sdk-1_4_2_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin and
> as my last step I need a link in Mozilla for my plugin for JAVA to be
> used which has to be done manually - activated ... so as su {superuser}
> I did a link 
>
> [root mycomputer chris]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
> [root mycomputer plugins]# ln -s
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> and then verified if link was set which it was
>
> [root mycomputer plugins]# ls -l
> total 136
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           72 Feb 25 17:07
> libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       129611 Sep  4 13:43 nppdf.so
>
>
> However when I launch Mozilla 1.2.1 and look in Help -> Plug-in 


You don't want to use the gcc32 version of the plugin with Moz 1.2. There 
should be a ns610 directory in the SDK plugins directory, try that.

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