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jathey
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 Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:44 am Post subject: Java and Mozilla? |
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So frustrating!
I'm running Mozilla 1.2.1-r4, and blackdown-jdk-1.3.1 is both the system vm and my user vm. I've set up a symlink in my /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory to the actual plugin:
| Code: | javaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so
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But I have no java in Mozilla. Going to Help->About Plug-ins shows my Flash and RealPlayer plugins, but no java plugin. What else do I need to do?
Many thanks,
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jathey
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 6:55 am Post subject: One other thing - Fonts |
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Also, does anyone have any guidance on how to make fonts work correctly in Mozilla? I see many websites (most of them probably designed in MS Frontpage) where things like the apostrophe and double quotes are screwed up. How do I fix this?
Again, many thanks.
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cyfred
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 8:25 am Post subject: |
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OK the best way to get Java to work is to use the SUN java libraries and compile from source -- which actually works nicely now see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30534&highlight=
Firstly uninstall the blackdown jdk and install the sun-jdk (as it is needed for the source compile)
| Code: | emerge unmerge dev-java/blackdown*
emerge dev-java/sun-jdk |
It will instruct you to download a certain file and move into distfiles/ do this and re issue the command.
When that is completed you can now emerge the j2sdk and have it compile from source, which takes a little while.
| Code: | | emerge dev-java/sun-j2sdk |
I cant gauruntee that this will work with mozilla 1.2.1-r* but I know it does with 1.3a which works great with gtk2 and all the fonts. Try moving to mozilla 1.3a to fix the fonts problem
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" USE="gtk2" emerge net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.3a.ebuild |
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El_Presidente_Pufferfish
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 11:48 am Post subject: |
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| It's worked great with mozilla 1.2 for me |
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cyfred
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Well there you go.
Im quite happy with 1.3a so im not going to bother going back, but at least it does work. |
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