Blackdown Java
 

I downloaded Blackdown.orgs version of j2re-1.4.1_01-linux-i586-gcc2.95.bin. I have MDK 9.2 and 723 Opera. I'm changing because Opera crashes on some sites. How do I go about opening and installing this program? Does it self-install once opened like in windows? If you can help please be very basic. Thanks.:newbie:

As root run:
bash j2re-1.4.1_01-linux-i586-gcc2.95.bin

Accept the agreement this will extract a new folder jre-xxx. Move the folder to /usr/local/jre-xxx

Then link the plugin from the plugin subdirectory to your browsers plugin directory.

I disagree, you don't need to become root to install Java, it works very well in my home directory.
Edit - I misread the original post, I thought it said Konqueror, not Opera - silly me.

Thank you for the replies. What is the best way to uninstall the java I'm using now? I tried it one wa y described in forum but it didn't work.:newbie:http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=unistall+java

How to uninstall something depends on how you installed it. Assuming it came with your initial installation, you should use your distribution's package management tools to remove it.

It was j2re1.4.1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin in "home". Not with the installation.:newbie:

all you need to do is run the bin file (./javafilename) then it will uncompress a directory. find the plugin in that directory. should be something like javaplugin_oji.so or something. Then create a symbolic link from from that to the directory where your plugins for your browser are stored. it MUST be a symbolic link or it will not work. it looks something like this ln -s /j2rexxx/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so of course your paths will be different depending on where your stuff is located. hope this helped. also i dont remember wheich browser you said you were using. all i see plugins for in my directory are netscape and mozilla.

Just delete the files and the plugin in your browsers plugin directory.

Th reason I suggested an install as root is that you only need to do it once and then all users on the system have java. If you install as a user then only you will have java.

in my case, i did install the package by ./....bin and had agree it. My mozilla browser could automatically see that plagins. but everytime i gone to a java site. every mozilla window suddenly dissapears and says something wrong with "java_vm"
Is there anyway i could straight this out???

Did you download the correct version?

From either /path/to/mozilla/plugins or ~/.mozilla/plugins you need to make a symbolic link to the libjavaplugin_oji.so that was compiled with gcc3.2, which means you either need j2re1.4.2 from Sun (as it gives you a choice of plugins compiled with gcc2.9 or 3.2) or a Blackdown version of Java that was compiled with gcc 3.2.