in the FWIW department....

[Gary Kline]

     In late Janury,  Herren Georg-W. Koltermann and Martin Cracauer were 
     discussing howto get the java runtime plugin working with linux-mozilla.
     I've already figured out how to get the flashplugin6, realplayer, and 
     other plugins installed with linux-mozilla-1.5.  Here is the part with  
     the jre.
 
(Notes from my ~/.howto file)
 
// Getting java applets to work with linux-mozilla-1.5
 
// GET  libgcc_so.1 from <wherever>.  (I scp'd it from my RH box into  /tmp)
// Then as root:
 
 # mv /tmp/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/compat/linux/lib
 
// check file just to be sure:
 
  # cd /usr/compat/linux/lib  
  # file libgcc_s.so.1 
libgcc_s.so.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
 
// Next, symlink the linux-sun java runtime plugin (ns610-gcc3*) into the
// linux-mozilla/plugins directory: 
 
 # ln -s 
/usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
 
 # ls /usr/local/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins
libjavaplugin_oji.so@
 


     Hope this saves others some time.

     gary

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