java installation

[Rick Stevens]

Kemal Cambazoðlu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to install Java plugin to Mozilla,
> I think I followed the instructions very carefully,
> but it is not working!
> 
> Here is the procedure that I followed:
> 
> 1-Downloading j2sdk-1_4_2_06-linux-i586-rpm.bin from
> java.sun.com
> 2-chmod a+x j2sdk-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> 3-rpm -iv j2sdk-1_4_2_01-linux-i586-rpm  (as a super
> user)
> 4-rm
> usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.3/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> There is a mozilla folder and mozilla-1.4.3 folder in
> my computer, so I did it for both.
> 
> 5-ln -s
> /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> 
> Do I have to do something else? 

Several things.  First, the "ln -s" command is:

ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

(you must specify the libjavaplugin_oji.so bit in the symlink.  If your
command was accepted, you've clobbered your /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
directory now.

Also verify that
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
actually exists.  Depending on your RedHat version, you may need to
specify the gcc32 version of the plugin.
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