seamonkey and java... HOW????

Posterboy · 02-08-2007, 08:21 AM

I have java working prefectly in Firefox, but, ever since mozilla changed to seamonkey, no java runs in seamonkey.
However, about

lugins shows it, and I have copied libjavaplugin_oji, (or wahtever that is) into the plugins directory in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.0.7/plugins.
Still, no joy, I don't know what to try next, any ideas?

Lenard · 02-08-2007, 09:30 AM

Works just fine for me........

I keep all my plugins (where they should be to avoid update problems) in /usr/mozilla/plugins directory;

Code:

$ ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
total 6008
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Feb  7 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Jan 31 00:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 Feb  7 18:55 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      55 Feb  7 16:05 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  264188 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     981 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  264412 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     981 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  264444 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     981 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  264700 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     981 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  265720 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     981 Oct 20 10:57 mplayerplug-in.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4759307 Dec 10 22:29 nppdf.so

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Posterboy · 02-08-2007, 03:19 PM

Thanks for your reply.

Hmmm, me too. Looky:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Feb 8 10:03 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Jan 16 05:19 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 277948 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278204 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-qt.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-qt.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278236 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-rm.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-rm.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281080 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278492 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in-wmp.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Jan 29 08:12 mplayerplug-in.xpt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Feb 3 16:33 nphelix.so -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Feb 3 16:33 nphelix.xpt -> /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt

This WORKS in FF and in Opera, just fine, but not in Seamonkey.
I did my _oji as a symlink, but that always worked before.
I don't know what to try to solve this.
Someone?

Lenard · 02-08-2007, 07:55 PM

Visit the Sun's java test site with seamonkey to verify;
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp

Posterboy · 02-09-2007, 05:03 AM

As expected, seamonkey fails that test.
Ideas?

Lenard · 02-09-2007, 06:11 AM

Only to remove the rpm package and parts of the hidden users .mozilla directory. You want to keep the firefox subdirectory but nothing else. Also remove the old /usr/lib/mozilla-XXX and /usr/lib/seamonkey-XXX directories and install the latest version of seamonkey fresh.

For the hidden users .mozilla directory you want the remove the default subdirectory and the appreg, mozver.dat and pluginreg.dat files.

Posterboy · 02-09-2007, 06:46 AM

Well, thank you. Please, before I do that, I need to be able to run FF, seamonkey, and Opera, all working with java enabled. Am I about to break something?

Posterboy · 02-09-2007, 07:29 AM

Hmmm, lacking a reply, I just renamed all of that stuff, and removed seamonkey, and reinstall. Doing that has broken my firefox java. I moved all of the renamed files back, but I still don't have java in firefox, and it doesn't work in seamonkey either, It DOES work in Opera.
Any ideas?

Lenard · 02-09-2007, 08:45 AM

You should have only deleted or renamed the /usr/lib/mozilla-<some number here> and /usr/lib/seamonkey-<some number here> directories. Did you perhaps accidentally remove or rename the /usr/lib/mozilla directory?? Does this directory have a link to the /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so file and the others as you listed in reply #3??

Notice the verion of the java jre I have installed (/usr/java/jre1.6.0/) you might want to upgrade.

You need to log out of the GUI after the removal or renaming then log back in or things will not update.

Also see this; http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=525948

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Posterboy · 02-09-2007, 09:10 AM

OK, we are all back together here. I don't really know what I did wrong, or right, but java is working in all 3 apps now. Wish I could lay my hand on what went wrong, in order to be of help to others, but, in my frantic effort to recover, I changed so many things.
Thanks, all!

josenj · 07-22-2009, 12:02 PM

I had to use the following to get it working for me in Arch Linux:

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
rm libnpjp2.so
ln -s /opt/java/jre<version>/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Close Seamonkey and restart.

I guess Seamonkey doesn't like libnpjp2.so. So if anyone else is having problem, check if you have this file. Once I removed it Java started working.