Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 1:07:39 EDT
From: John Weber
To: Dario Fernandez
Subject: Mozilla and Java
                                                                                
Hey, D.
                                                                                
I got the java plugin to work on linux finally.  Here's what I did:
                                                                                
(1) Download a good version of the Java2 JRE.  (Mostly this means that
the JRE needs to be built with GCC 3.2).  You can get it here:
                                                                                
wget ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
                                                                                
(2) Extract the binary:
                                                                                
chmod a+x j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
./j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
                                                                                
(3) Move the j2re-1.4.1 directory from your home directory to wherever you
want it to reside.  I put it in /usr/java/jre-1.4.1
                                                                                
mv j2re-1.4.1 /usr/java/jre-1.4.1
 
(4) Create a link from the plugins directory of your mozilla installation
to the plugin inside /usr/java/jre-1.4.1:
 
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre-1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so javaplugin_oji.so
 
(5) Exit and restart mozilla.