Netscape + Java

[MarkLeong]

Installed Netscape 6.1 and seems good.

However I could not get Java applets to work.

Tried: export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=<point to jre>/plugin/i386/ns600

However still could not view applets. Worked for Netscape 4.7 though.

Anybody has successfully installed Netscape 6.1 + Java?

[subnet_rx]

As per the Sun installation instructions:

If (and only if) you are using Netscape 6, you will need to create a symbolic link in the Netscape plugins directory to the path of the libjavaplugin_oji.so file. This file is located within the Java 2 SDK at jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so.
cd ${NETSCAPE6}/plugins
ln -s ${JRE}/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Did you do this?

[MarkLeong]

Can you point me to the website containing the instructions?

[UncleMonty]

I installed the Netscape 6.1 version with java included, and I checked the sym link to the "filename.so" file. It was linked correctly, but the only plugin listed in Netscape's "Help - About Plugins" dropdown menu was the "default" plugin, and none of the other installed plugins were either listed or functional.
The various Netscape newsgroups have it that once the java plugin is working, most of the other plugins will also work, but even after installing Sun's JRE (1.3.1) and replacing the original sym. link with a link to the newly-installed libjavaplugin_oji.so file, none of the installed plugins were recognized or operational.
This is with linux-Mandrake 7.2.

One additional oddity: The sun download page describes the JRE download as being 14,239,859 bytes, but when downloaded, the filesize reported before, during, and after the download, is 13,906,000 bytes.

This file size is the same for every Sun download site.

Has anyone any ideas?

[Baranohell]

I have been having the same problem with mozilla and its currently being discussed in the thread here: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=005801

Apparently Redhat 7.1 has a bug (isn't Madrake RedHat based?), I'm not going to get into details here...check the thread for them, that won't let the Java VM work unless you add an environment variable. To the best of my knowledge Netscape is based on mozilla so we may be experiencing the same problem.

[ 10 October 2001: Message edited by: Baranohell ]