I have been playing around with Mozilla-9.1 from the Alpha "unstable" tree and have got it working somewhat. The problem I now have is the java2-plugin that it wants to install.
On my first attempt I tried to install it using the "smartupdate" feature from the Netscape site. This was a bad move in that THAT java2-plugin was for the i386 arch. and wouldn't work with my Alpha. The second "try" was to install the JDK 1.3.1 kit from Compaq. As far as I know, this installation went fine...no errors reported during install and I can fire up the various components. According to the docs I have been able to find, the JDK 1.3.1 contains the JRE, and the JRE is supposed to come with a Netscape 6 "java2-plugin". On my i386 machines it is there and is called "libjavaplugin_oji.so". I cannot find anything similar in the COMPAQ JDK 1.3.1 kit. The nearest thing is called "libjava.so". All the other components I see on my i386 machines seems to be available in the JRE section of the JDK. All I am missing is the java2 plugin. The question is: where can I find the ALPHA equivalent of "libjavaplugin_oji.so"?? Does it even exist and/or is there a "substitute". As you can tell, I am NOT a programmer nor do I know much about JAVA. I don't think it is feasible for me to make this plugin, so I am quite dependent upon others for some help here. TIA & Cheers, -Don Spoon-
