getting gal/moz java plugin installed

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Randy Bush wrote:
|>>You need to have jdk14 installed to get Java support in the native
|>>Firefox and Mozilla browsers.
|>>and then what other ports need to be rebuilt?
|>
|>None.
|
|
| well,
|
|     # ls -ld j* *flash* *plug*
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 11:14 gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5_1/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 29 23:58 ja-less+iso-358.254_2/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 29 22:00 jade-1.2.1_8/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 10:06 jasper-1.701.0/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  1 10:03 javavmwrapper-1.5/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 10:06 jbigkit-1.6/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 31 17:21 jdk-1.4.2p6_6/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 31 18:22 jpeg-6b_3/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 01:00 jpilot-0.99.7_1/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 29 17:00 libflash-0.4.12/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  1 09:56
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  1 09:56
linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov  1 09:56
linuxpluginwrapper-20041017/
|     drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 17:46 mplayerplug-in-2.70/
|
| and restart moz.  'about plugins' shows quicktime, shockwave nppdf,
| and flash, but no java.
|
| one other anomaly, 'about plugins' also shows Shockwave Flash 5.0 r51.

You need to create a symlink under /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins:

libjavaplugin_oji.so@ ->
/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Joe

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| randy
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