[olug] mozilla yet no java?

[Nick Walter]

I ran into this java plugin issue myself once, and while I don't recall
the exact reasons, I discovered that the java plugin only works for me
if it is soft linked (ln -s)into the mozilla plugins directory.  Didn't
work for me as a hard link or directly copied in.  

Another thing to make sure of is that you don't have multiple mozillas
installed.  That happened to me too last time I upgraded mozilla.  I
actually ended up with two mozillas, one in /usr/lib and one is
/usr/local.  That caused some very strange behavior until I figured it
out.

Nick Walter

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 00:38, Brian Wiese wrote:
> I'm stumped.  I followed these directions [1], downloaded and installed
> the j2re from java.sun.com, and created a symbolic link for the java
> library in my mozilla plugins directory, then also tried copying the
> library to my mozilla plugins directory.  Restarting mozilla each time
> still showed no java in the "about: plugins" page.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered such a similiar problem?
> The only difference is that my mozilla dir is /usr/lib/ vs. /usr/local/
> 
> franklin:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# ls -l
> total 292
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       272989 Feb 24 00:22
> libjavaplugin_oji.so-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        18596 Dec 26
> 02:08 libnullplugin.s
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.fiddlesticks.com/show383.html
> 
> I'm running Debian stable.  I've tried this with Mozilla 'stable' and
> 'testing'.
> 
> peace
> 
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