Working mozilla 1.1 with plugins

SirronD

Trying your instruction to get java working, and I need 3 files from sun
- j2sdk-1_4_0-src-scsl.zip
- j2sdk-1_4_0-motif-linux-i386.zip
- j2sdk-1_4_0-mozilla_headers-unix.zip

I downloaded the first two, but the mozilla_headers-unix file is no where to be found. I did a search on the sun site and I cannot find it anywhere.

Where is this file?

Can I get java working in mozilla any other way (short of going back to gentoo 1.2)

Any help is appreciated.

discostu · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 333

SirronD · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 12:39 am Post subject: Java is working! Thanks guys

Just finished the emerge of sun-j2sdk 1.4.0-r3. Mozilla (1.2.1) now regesters that I have JAVA!!!

It took just slightly less than forever to compile, but it did compile and install very cleanly.

One thing to note that wasn't pointed out, the Java sdk emerge needs 2GB. I don't normally have that much extra space in my / partition. But thanks to the wonders of emerge, all I need to to was point portage to a tmp dir I created on my /home partition (where I have most of my free space), with the following command:
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/tmp" emerge sun-j2sdk-1.4.0-r3.ebuild

Again, thanks.

BigDaveyL · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 4:01 am Post subject: Works for me!

Works perfectly for me now as well!

DaleNixon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 91

Thanks! That worked! Just make sure to warn everyone that compiling moz takes a long time but compiling j2sdk takes freaking ages!
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OpelBlitz · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

How do I take care of that?

int1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 139

If you mean the dependencies, try:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -up sun-j2sdk

LosD · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Java is working! Thanks guys

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int1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 139

FYI to all, this still works for installing mozilla 1.2.1, as I did it this weekend.

int1

jarek · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 28

kermitjunior · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167

I've read several places that mention the gentoo-sources are conflicting with the Java and vanilla works great. Any opinions/stats from those of you that have it working?

THanks
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int1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 139

I've heard the same thing. I use vanilla, and haven't had any problems.

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Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

Thank you VERY MUCH for this guide! worked great with 1.2.1!

Much appreciated!

NatuNobilis · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2003 3:42 pm Post subject:

Why doesn't it work the traditional way?
I've always put mozilla to work with java by downloading the netscape 6 java plugin (the file is named jre.xpi), and (as root) double-clicking this xpi file.

This has always worked, but it didn't with gentoo...

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Mike_McCready · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 43 Location: Massachusetts

hey, I followed all the steps, but mozilla still doesn't recognize java as a plugin. Any ideas?

vibidoo · Guru Joined: 27 Nov 2002 Posts: 409

I have follow this tips to install Java .

Everything was installed with some problem but finally I got Java .

But I only get Javascript working not the Java applets !

:cry:

JoeGreensticks · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 8

Just wanted to report success using the steps described earlier in the post, with a few modifications.

I don't think it's necessary to remove OpenMotif/Lesstif (at least not on my system).

I'm using :

gcc-3.2.3-r1
glibc-2.3.2-r1
mozilla-1.3-r1
sun-j2sdk-1.4.1

I've had Mozilla installed since 1.1, and Phoenix/Firebird since 0.5 (including some cvs builds using Xft).

One thing to note: I had previously symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so from /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.02/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/ to /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins; this was not removed when sun-j2sdk was installed. I had to manually remove it and re-symlink using the plugin from /opt/sun-j2sdk-1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/.

Also, I had to kill my ~/.phoenix folder and let Firebird recreate it in order to get the browser to open. Before doing this, I was getting a "expected version >5! Version = 0" error message.

I'm not certain, but I think the key is that the sun-jdk ebuild does not like GCC 3.2 or greater; this was mentioned earlier in the post. I'm not sure if the kernel version plays a role, but I'm using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5, FWIW.

Firebird rocks!!! By far, the best *nix browser yet, IMHO!

becca · n00b Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 21

becca · n00b Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 21

For a smaller install, and to avoid downloading stuff I won't use anyway, I'm going with the JRE. Downloaded and agreed to the license, but the command

rpm -iv j2re-1_4_1_03-linux-i586.rpm

doesn't work. I tried

rpm -iv /home/brad/j2re-1_4_1_03-fcs-linux-i586.rpm

after checking the directory to be sure of the filename, but I get this:

glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by j2re-1.4.1_03-fcs
/bin/sh is needed by j2re-1.4.1_03-fcs

I have libc-2.3.2, so that shouldn't be a problem. Don't understand the second statement, though. Can anyone help? Thanks!