Ok, now ive been trying to install this java sun applet for ages. Nothing has been working right. People are telling me i have an old version of mozilla bhut im perfectly fine with that i don't want to change it, just tell me how to install j2re...please help!

www.google.com just give it a try there are a lot good faqs out there there is also one at the mozilla project page as well as im pretty sure theres at least one in this forum just search for it ...

lazy...

i guess i just need someone to tell me how to configure it in rh9....ive gone through the steps and let it install....

Download the binary from sun - You probably have already

Put it in the directory where you want it - You probably did that too

At the prompt type: sh nameofthebinary <Enter>

After reading the disclaimer from Sun press y <Enter>

That ought to do the trick

nameofthebinary = the j2re youve downloaded

After that you point OpenOffice - or whatever to that particular directory when compiling etc.

well i'm lazy, so i'm not even going to find those old threads of yours. what version of mozilla and java did you install?

dude settle down i was talking about myself...and I KNOW HOW TO INSTALL IT NIMOY I ALREADY HAVE....it just doesnt work in my browser.

and i asked you what version of java and mozilla are you using. it makes a difference on which java plugin to link to.

mozilla 1.1, dont tell me to update unless its going to solve this, that just creates more hassle

no i wasn't going to tell you to upgrade. but what version of java?

ah ok i got the j2sdk-1_4_2_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin

okay. gonna assume you unpacked the *.bin and installed the java rpm. do this:

1. cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins
2. rm -f libjavaplugin*.so
3. ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

run mozilla. type in the address bar: aboutlugins

you should see java listed in there.

some things to make sure of though.

in #1 make sure that that's the correct directory for your version of mozilla. just look in /usr/lib and look at all the mozilla directories.
also run mozilla and do Help > About to make sure of the version of mozilla when you run it.

ok i did everything and nothing went wrong as i can see, but its not registering it under plugins

when mozilla's running, you made sure of the version in Help > About? also, you did restart mozilla, right? anyway, the path to mozilla is /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1, right? run this command:

ls -al /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_02/plugin/i386/ns610

post the output.

there's only 2 things i can think of. either java isn't installed correctly or the path to mozilla isn't right for the version you claim to be using.

i neglected to mention that before hand i found the path to mozilla plugins folder was /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins