Java and Mozilla

[onlythetony]

Hi,

I recently (after much deliberation) ditched RH7.2 and did a clean install of SuSE 8.1, which is working fine (1Ghz Athalon, GeForce 2 AGP, CDR sort of thing).
It seems to be the simplest thing that's thrown me -

How the hell do I get Java to run with Mozilla?

I've installed the plugin in my home .mozilla/plugins directory... and still nothing.

When I goto a page that contains java, mozilla decides to download the plugin for me then fails on install saying "Read Only".

Any ideas?

[Hayl]

1. did you copy the plugin into your ~/.mozilla/plugins or create a symlink? it will only work if you use a symlink.

2. is the path to the bin directory in your java install in your PATH variable? for example mine is in : /opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.1/jre/bin so taht is included in my path.

if you need help adding the bin directory to your path do a search on java on JL because there are already many posts with instructions on how to do it.

[galenthurber]

login is as root

try blackdown java 1.4.1
after installing it then
from command line enter this [all one line]

ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so