Java for mozilla on linux

[Glitchny]

how do i get java for mozilla that is running on linux? for some reason i cannot view pages that use java applets

 

[Glitchny]

ok i got java throuhg the netscape plug in site and it says that it installed fine but for some reason a site will not load. this happened to me with the windows version of mozilla as well but IE opens the site perfectly fine. Is it jsut this site that mozilla has problems with? the site is www.hackers.com

any ideas?

oh and the KDE browser will not open the site either

 

[manly]

First off, install the Sun Java2 RE (or SDK), either by RPM or self-extracting binary (my preference). I stick the SDK in /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1 and then test that it works:

$ /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/bin/java -version

If it does work, then the easiest way to install the Java Plugin is to create a symlink, i.e.

# ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/mozilla/plugins

This is the old way to install the Java Plugin, but for silly technical reasons, it's still the way to go.

FYI, Java in Mozilla works just fine. I don't use KDE so I can't comment on enabling the Java plugin, but you can search google. Any Java applets that don't work well with the Sun Java2 VM were probably targeted for the Microsoft VM, which is a terrible mistake.

Edit:
Fixed typo. Thanks Gooberlx2.

 

[Gooberlx2]

If it does work, then the easiest way to install the Java Plugin is to create a shell script, i.e.

# ln -s /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /opt/mozilla/plugins

By shell script he means symbolic link...just to be accurate. 😉