Java in Moziila 1.4
 

Hola all.

Courtesy of mazinger.technisys.com.ar/pruebas-nick/mozilla/

I was able to install flash and java. Flash works great. Mozilla on the other hand does not.

I can run java and javac from the prompt...but the plugin for Mozilla does not work.

In /usr/local/mozila/plugins, I have a symbolic link to the java plugin located at /usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so

I even made the same symbolic link into my home directory.
~/.mozilla/plugins/

Still, I get error messages when running mozilla:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID]
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID]


I even get this error message when I use the automatic java plugin installers that Mozilla fetches for you.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Hi Candyman123

I just had a problem with Mozilla and Java 1.4 and put this in another post.

Hi everyone

I finally got it all by myself. I went to blackdown, followed the instructions exactly to get Java 2 installed. ie. I copied j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin right into /usr/local, did a chmod +x as root, then ran it. It put it into j2re1.4.1. I then issued the following two commands as root

ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

and

ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /home/Jim/.mozilla/plugins/

You can replace the 'Jim' with whatever your home directory is called. I am not too bright, I use my name. Thanks everyone for the help. I hope this helps Chazb, who is also having trouble. I think a lot of my trouble was that I am a horrible typist. I suspect my typing more than everything. Take care.

Jim

how abt if i using "j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.rpm" to install? will it work?

Hi w0000422

Don't know, and since I am using Xandros now, wouldn't have any way to find out. Sorry I couldn't help.

Jim

wrong plugin in link.

link to instead:
/usr/local/j2re1.4/plugin/i386/mozilla/ns610-gcc32/javaplugin_oji.so