Dear reader,

I run:

Mozilla 1.6
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

with Red Hat 9 Linux version: 2.4.20-8

and I have repeatedly tried to install the `java2 linux plug-in'

from:

h tt p ... wp dot netscape do com slash plugins slash jvm dot html

but it just don't work (I install it as root)!?!

How can this be solved?!

Thank you so much for help!

Ytsen.

Use google or this search feature. google.com/linux is good help. java linux install plugin sucks for linux i think...gl.


Installing Java Plugin on Mozilla for Linux
To install the Java plugin, download the JRE for Linux from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html.

After you have installed Java, then you must install the plugin by creating a symbolic link from the java plugin library to the mozilla plugins directory:

cd where-ever-you-installed-mozilla
cd plugins

# If your system has GCC 3.2 (RedHat 8 or 9) do:
ln -s path-to-java/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

# Otherwise:
ln -s path-to-java/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Dear Tooslhed#7,

Yesterday I couldn't get it to work, but now installed the JRE someplace else and now it WORKS!!

THANKS BIG TIME.

Ytsen.

how did you get java VM to work ....i also have the same problem redhat 9.0 help

I imagine, fishy stuff. I downloaded the JRE for Linux from java.sun.com/j2se/.

And I unpacked it in the directory `/usr/lib/' on my system.

Then in the plug-ins dir of mozilla `some-place-on-your-system/mozilla/plugins' I added a symbolic link:

ln -s path-to-java/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Don't forget the point at the end of the line. Then I restarted my system and it worked. The first time I had extracted the JRM file on the root. Aparantly it does matter where you store it, funny. Good luck.

I'm having the SAME problem. I am using RH9, Mozilla for Linux.
I downloaded j2re-1_5_0-beta-linux-i586-rpm.bin
I unpacked it and installed it in my usr/lib/ directory (as root).

Then I did :
ln -s path-to-java/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
and I have libjavaplugin_oji.so (in red) in my mozilla/plugins directory.

But Java still does not work. I restarted my system, and nothing.

Please help me. I'm new to Linux and it's so very frustrating.

Hi, you are sure that you need the i586 rpm? If so, then also link to that. Furthermore, I'm quite a novice too, but when I installed the rpm in another dir, it worked... So if you're sure about the i586 vs. i386 then I suggest you install (just to try it out at first!) the rpm in `usr/loc' or in a dir `closer' to the plug-in dir of moz. Good luck!

Well, I can't even find where to download the i386 rpm file. But here's what I discovered.

In my usr/java directory I have 2 folders: j2re1.4.2_04 and j2re1.5.0
j2re1.5.0 has a plugin directory, and inside plugin I have desktop and i386 folders.
so I went to j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386
and there I have three folders
ns4
ns7
and ns7-gcc29

Each one of these folders has a libjavaplugin_oij.so

When I go to usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04 I have a plugin directory again, and desktop and i386
Inside plugin I have three folders again
ns4, ns610, and ns610-gcc32.
Each one of these has a libjavaplugin_oij.so as well

Hmm. So do I have too many things installed. How do I uninstall them if this is the case?

Please help!

You are right, I can't find the i386 anymore neither, no worry, just take the i586.

Unpack it and install the .so file at:

/usr/lib/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

where you might want to correct for the 386 thing.

Make the link accordingly, again care for the 386 vs. 586 thing, and pray that it works, good luck.

Been trying for some time now to get it to work, but it still won't do it.

I unpacked and re-installed java in the usr/lib/ directory, and created a link:
ln -s path-to-usr/lib/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

It told me it already existed, I checked and the libjavaplugin_oij.so (which is green) is there.

But java still doesn't work.

Does anyone have any other tips that might help? It's driving me nuts. Thanks.

You say it told you that the file exists. This is when you make the link right? That means that you have to rename the old link (which of course has the same file name) first to something like link-old, then you make the link again.

I was a bit surprised also when I got that message but it means that the link is already there. But does that old link point to your newly installed lib, probably not right? No harm in trying it out, good luck again.

Ytsen.