Hey peoples, I'm having a issue getting Java installed on my new shiny Redhat 9.0 install.

This is what ive done

Downloaded the .bin from sun (j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin) and run it. It gives me a j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm file, so RPM'ed it. I have a /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ directory. Inside that directory is three more, a ns4, ns600, and a ns 610. All the documentation ive found thus far has said to take the libjavaplugin_oji.so file inside of the ns 610 directory and create a symbolic link to /home/username/.mozilla/plugins/. I have done this, as i can see the symbolic link in my users /.mozilla/plugin directory highlighted in red.

This is my problem. Java dosent work. hah, In mozillas help->about plugins javas not listed. Hopefully this is just me being stupid. (im sure it is).

I dug around google and these boards and didnt come across anything i havent tried, so here i post.

Any help is totally rad! Thanks!

I personally link java globally in:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

However, if you want it per user, that's fine. A red link usually means it's broken, so your symlinking either didn't work; you don't have access to a directory in that path; or it's a dynamic directory (probably not).

Just try re-symlinking it:
ln -sf /usr/java/j2re(press tab)/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /home/username/.mozilla/plu(press tab to ensure you actually have this syntax correct, it will autocomplete if you do)/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Then try:
about:plugins again.

Cool

This was taken from Mozilla1.3 release notes pertaining to java:

"If you are using the Red Hat 8.x RPMS and you have the Java plugin installed, you must have a version that is also compiled with GCC 3.2. There is a version available from the Blackdown project. Make sure you download the GCC 3.2 version! A version with GCC 3.2 is also rumored to be available from Sun sometime soon."

You can check out the link here.

Quick side but related question: how do i find out the defualt installation directory for mozilla?

Thanks for the help guys, when i get a free moment ill let you know what worked.

Quick side but related question: how do i find out the defualt installation directory for mozilla?

i believe it's /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1

whereis mozilla

Unless you've got multiple versions, that should work.

Cool

Upon symlinking it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins it works. Trying to put it in the home folder wasnt working for me. Thanks alot for all your help.

You're welcome

Here are the instructions: http://members.shaw.ca/trollking/

However on RH 9.0, Galeon doesn't work with Java2 but Moziila web browser does. Also on Mandrake 9.1 both work without even doing the smbolic link. So the situation varies from distribution to distribution. I have Java2 working on Mozilla RH 9.0 at this time.

Note: I disabled Java for Galeon on RH 9.0 but you might not even have the galeon web browser installed yourself, because it is not in the default packages for RH 9.0.

I have a similar problem. I installed j2sdk-1.4.2 beta, and put the path command in ~/.bash_profile, as per the website in the previous post. I am running RedHat 9, and I have both /usr/lib/mozilla and /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1, so I symlinked the .so file to both of their plugins directories. My terminal recognizes the javac command, but the plugins do not work. Is there something else I need to do?