Something different w/ Java enabling browser

[posterboy]

OK, I read a LOT of threads here, about this, and thought, well, let's do this to Netscape 7.1, as the Netscape site has everything I will need. NOPE!. I got what they said to get, it installed, but, on invocation, I get THIS!

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/local/netscape71/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [/usr/local/netscape71/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: __vt_17nsGetServiceByCID]

Undefined symbol? What? I didn't compile ANY of this, it's just all from the netscape loader at their site. What to do?

[JamminJoeyB]

I think I have a simple anser for you. When loading plugins from the Netscape site you need to have root permissions.

Run netscape from a terminal as root.


su
[your password]

netscape &

Navigate to netscapes site and select the plugins you want.

After installing what you want close Netscape and reopen it normal.

Most of the installer scripts want to write to areas where you need root access.

If you did this as root to begin with, then there is a different problem. We are going to need more information like what distro etc. Any and all information you can think of.

[posterboy]

Right, I could never have gotten that far w/o root. The distro is Shrike, and the JRE seems to me to be properly installed. I have nothing to test it with, but the contents of the directories look "normal" to me. I have done this before, on, maybe, Netscape 6 something, and it went smoothly. NOT this time. Thanks for your reply.

[JamminJoeyB]

OK how about plan B

Getting Java from Sun's site and installing it.

I know there are plenty of post on here about what steps are needed to get it working with Mozilla. Since they are pretty much the same it shouldn't be a problem to follow the advice in those threads.