rustskull
09-25-2002, 12:57 PM
I had no end of trouble with this because of a misdirection on pretty much every installation instruction's methods.
They all said that I should see the shared object
"libjavplugin_140oji.so"
well, no matter what version (jre/sdk/xpl) I couldn't get it give me that file, it kept giving me "libjavplugin_oji.so", I tried EVERYTHING...I had forgotten that anything that may call something else can be investigated with the ldd command (checks library dependencies).
See, I thought I wasn't getting the right file...not so. I searched, searched, searched the net. I'm pretty good. I finally came upon this site
http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml
because it finally hit on one of the probably hundreds of keyword combos that I went through, combing the net. I had dealt with this a couple months ago and put it aside for other things as it wasn't totally critical...except for getting me away from windows.
If you can't have the browsing experience that ie5.5 offers (I've switched back and forth between ie and ns depending on which one is working better...they both have critical problems with adobe acrobat..you ns4.77 people might have seen those!) then you can't replace M$. I'm waiting for the guy who appears to have cracked the mystery of wine to post more stuff...!
anyhow.
ldd showed that the java plugin that was present from the 1.4 downloads was missing a library it was dependant on. an oooold library. I had the similar problem with LabView (way back in march) and had to merely install the library to solve it. In this case, it took me about 1 minute (since I use debian, and many old libs are included in the indexing for probably just such compatibility problems) to fire up dselect, scroll down to the library i needed, get it installed, and suddenly I was playing java games in galeon! whoo hoo.
I still haven't got the mystery of soundcards solved, but that's next on the list. I have web configs, javascript, flash, and java vm running. you don't need much more as far as online entertainment is concerned. Hell, my intellimouse trackball came up with the SCROLLWHEEL ALREADY WORKING...imagine my surprise. I am so scrollwheel habituated that I often try and reflexively use it in linux and up until now...it hasn't done anything. Now it works in everything. I just use the default debian kde install because I haven't had time to make everything else work...so somewhere in there, we're getting pretty damn close to plug n pray on linux...real close. Once we migrate the kids over (which is wher eyou see how little difference there is for them in operation) then the linux/gnu/opensource/whatever attitude will start to really take root and we can go ahead and enter that new age of computational approach to problems that we have been promised for so many years *snif* (wipes small tear from eye)
-rust
They all said that I should see the shared object
"libjavplugin_140oji.so"
well, no matter what version (jre/sdk/xpl) I couldn't get it give me that file, it kept giving me "libjavplugin_oji.so", I tried EVERYTHING...I had forgotten that anything that may call something else can be investigated with the ldd command (checks library dependencies).
See, I thought I wasn't getting the right file...not so. I searched, searched, searched the net. I'm pretty good. I finally came upon this site
http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml
because it finally hit on one of the probably hundreds of keyword combos that I went through, combing the net. I had dealt with this a couple months ago and put it aside for other things as it wasn't totally critical...except for getting me away from windows.
If you can't have the browsing experience that ie5.5 offers (I've switched back and forth between ie and ns depending on which one is working better...they both have critical problems with adobe acrobat..you ns4.77 people might have seen those!) then you can't replace M$. I'm waiting for the guy who appears to have cracked the mystery of wine to post more stuff...!
anyhow.
ldd showed that the java plugin that was present from the 1.4 downloads was missing a library it was dependant on. an oooold library. I had the similar problem with LabView (way back in march) and had to merely install the library to solve it. In this case, it took me about 1 minute (since I use debian, and many old libs are included in the indexing for probably just such compatibility problems) to fire up dselect, scroll down to the library i needed, get it installed, and suddenly I was playing java games in galeon! whoo hoo.
I still haven't got the mystery of soundcards solved, but that's next on the list. I have web configs, javascript, flash, and java vm running. you don't need much more as far as online entertainment is concerned. Hell, my intellimouse trackball came up with the SCROLLWHEEL ALREADY WORKING...imagine my surprise. I am so scrollwheel habituated that I often try and reflexively use it in linux and up until now...it hasn't done anything. Now it works in everything. I just use the default debian kde install because I haven't had time to make everything else work...so somewhere in there, we're getting pretty damn close to plug n pray on linux...real close. Once we migrate the kids over (which is wher eyou see how little difference there is for them in operation) then the linux/gnu/opensource/whatever attitude will start to really take root and we can go ahead and enter that new age of computational approach to problems that we have been promised for so many years *snif* (wipes small tear from eye)
-rust