java for Mozilla

barrys · 11-21-2004, 04:11 AM

I have loaded the java from sun 4.0beta2 with netbeans and netbeans comes up allright on mandrake 10 amd64, whereis java, places it in /opt/ but the mozilla doen't read the java applets on displaying web pages with java on them.

Anyone, know how to get Mozilla to work these java applets properly so they are displayed?
The java is enabled in the Mozilla preferences.

Help would be appreciated.

rokka · 11-21-2004, 06:34 AM

Did you do a symbolic link of the java plugin to the the mozilla plugin directory?
If you type: about : plugins (remove spaces) in the location bar, does java show up?

barrys · 11-21-2004, 07:32 AM

No only libnull shows up.

My other machine does have all the java on but I am having great difficulty in creating the symbolic link

can you suggest a command line as all I get is no such directory

I put in

ls -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

any ideas what i'm doing wrong I have downloaded the latest mozilla1.7.3 which appears to be OK, but cannot get the application java's being listed

your help would be appreciated

J_Szucs · 11-21-2004, 08:05 AM

Hi Barrys,

The command you used is basically OK, and it should fire up java in Mozilla (and Firefox).
However, there is a typo in it: it should begin with "ln -s ..." (and not "ls -s ..."). Besides, I think you should do it as root, as the directories under /usr/local are only writeable for root.

If you get any errors, then doublecheck that the source of the symlink exists.

rokka · 11-21-2004, 08:59 AM

Im not sure abt jre1.5, but jre1.4 used to have an issue with mozilla, can't remember what, somthing with gcc-versions.
Whatever. This is what my plugindir looks like:
libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so*

As noted above your cmd looks fine exept you should use ln and not ls.

barrys · 11-21-2004, 09:30 AM

Thanks for all your help,

wee it works it was my typo,

Is it any point looking for a amd64 version I downloaded j2re 1.5.0 for amd64 but I cannot find a plugin, I suspect the Mozilla 1.7.3 still works as 32 bits

Thanks for all your help and to Linux questions for their forum