I'm using Mozilla1-7 on Slackware 10. The problem i have now is i cant get my plugin to work, whenever i go onto a site that uses java that plug-in box pops up. I have j2re1.4.2_05 installed and i set the link as so and i when i look in /usr/include/mozilla1-7/plugin/ and the file libjavaplugin_oji.so shows up but it doesnt work for the websites. I am lost, does anyone have any ideas or see something did wrong?

I also have Slackware 10, but my j2re (Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_04-b05) come with the installation. Looking at your code:

ln -s /home/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

The code only shows the source of the link, the destination of the link is missing. It should be like this:

ln -s /home/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /path-to/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Looks good to me, assuming that your java is installed in the home dir. How about that comment about going into Mozilla and Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Enable Java?

Yeah i checked the preferences its already checked, when i type in what you posted even when i copy and paste it i get

You have to replace /path-to/ to the directory where mozilla directory is, like /usr/mozilla/plugins/
or /home/you/mozilla/plugins
search for mozilla directory and a plugins subdirectory inside it.

On my pc it's /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.2/plugins

Well, I'm not running Slack, so things could be a bit different, but I've been setting this up successfully for both FC2 and SuSE 9.0. In my experience, the tutorial at the Sun Java site works fine...if you use the correct directories... First of all, I'd delete that link that doesn't work; then cd to the directory with the plugins (/usr/include/mozilla1-7/plugin) and then type in (ln -s /home/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so)
If /home/j2re1.4.2_05 is correct, that puppy should work...at least in SuSE and FC2.....

ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 2004-08-09 05:15 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

What this shows is that in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/plugins/ there is a sybolic link named libjavaplugin_oji.so that points to the file /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/lib/libjavaplugin_oji.so

so you could run (as root, so you have permissions) "ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/lib/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so" and it should work. That will also make the change for all users as well, so you don't have to do that for each user. If you install Firefox, be sure to make sure that you have a link to the netscape java plugin as well, it will work in Firefox, you just have to make sure Firefox thinks the file is in its directory.

jensen, when i rule that command it tells me the file already exists. But what i still dont get is i cannot see java applets, i am completey lost here.

do this as the normal user

set $PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/java/bin
set $JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java

'java' replaced this with your path to the java directory

what color is the link when you add on the --co tag?

Also, does it point to something that actually exists?