Java and Fedora2 / Mozilla1.7 (Hannes Mayer)

[Jim Higson]

> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:22:32 +0200
> From: Hannes Mayer <h.mayer at inode.at>
> Subject: Re: Java and Fedora2 / Mozilla1.7
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <40F2C8D8.5080903 at inode.at>
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> Reg Clemens wrote:
> > OK, this question has probably been answered before, but
> > my search of the mailing list doesnt find the answer.
> >
> > If I want to allow Fedora2 / Mozilla 1.7 to run Java, what do I do?
> >
> > I have loaded two different copies of Java, and when I
> > load mozilla both give the message:
> >
> > ---
> >
> > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
> > /mnt/home/share/local/mozilla/p lugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/
> > libjavaplugin_oji.so [libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object
> > file: No such file or directory]
> >
> > ---
> >
> > which SEEMS to be saying that this thing wants libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
> > which was (I assume) distributed with a previous version of Linux.
> >
> > Is there a more recent version of the JAVA RPM out there that loads with
> > current libraries?
> > Can I safely make a symbolic link from this name to the CURRENT library?
> > Or is JAVA just not runnable from the current Fedora/Mozilla combination?

In case you havn't tried already, with apt:

$ apt-get j2re mozilla-j2re

Then works just fine for me. IIRC Both are in dag.