hello everyone,

i need to access a page for school in order to do some schedualing,

when i click this blank spot that appears to be the link i need, it says im mising
(application/x-java-vm)

about mozilla:
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031027


just wondering what i can do, ive done searches left and right but i cant find info to benifit me...
this is my first day of truely using this linux OS, and any linux os for that matter

at least i got my mp3 player working along with aim, not too bad right?

yeah total n00b here.

lil help?

-matt
A+, Net+

You must install the java plugin for Mozilla. Go here
download the latest jre and follow the instructions.

ok i went to the site, downloaded the file, installed it, or so i think...

at step #7: Run the RPM command at the terminal to install the packages. Type:
rpm -iv j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.rpm

it just kinda hangs at a flashing cursor...i cant break out or rest it...it just flashes...i dont know what to do...

i tried a tone of different things...and i thought i had it...but java still doesnt work, i followed some of the steps below that and i got the same output... but i know something isnt right and its related to this step.

anyone have an idea?

rpm's don't work very well. The self extracing binary always works, so go here and get the self extracting binary. Change tha permissions on it so you can execute it

chmod 755 /path/to/j2re-*

Then cd into the folder where you want to install it. That's up to you. If you want to install it system side you'll need to become root so I find it's easiest to just install it in my home folder.

cd /some/folder/or/other
/path/to/j2re-*

Agree to the terms and that bit is done. Now, to install the plugin,

install -d ~/.mozilla/plugins
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /some/folder/or/other/j2re*/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

you the man, thanks for your help!

i woulda never got it to work on my own doing what i was doing...