Re: [Sheflug] Mozila / Java

[Alec Melling <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 15:08, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:52, Alec Melling wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to get the Java plug-in to work in Mozila. Being new to Linux
> > I have butted the brick-wall early... could someone please tell me what
> > the hell a symbolic link is please?
> >
> > According to the Mozila plug-in docs, I have to make a symbolic link
> > between Mozila and Java. Non of my extensive texts on Linux reference a
> > symbolic link?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > --
> > Alec Melling
>
> I grabbed the rpm of java from sun and installed (getjava.sun.com).
> The paths may vary a bit depending on your version of Java / Mozilla-
> with RH8.0 this would work.
>
> cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins 	(or /usr/lib/mzoilla-1.0.1/plugins)
> ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.0/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji140.so ./

Thats it, you are a star. I am relying on Running Linux and Linux Cookbook to 
try and understand the terminology, and they do not term the operation above 
in the same way as the Plugin doc at Mozila.

Many thanks
-- 
Alec Melling
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