As many of you may have noticed, I've created a backport of Mozilla that actually works on Woody. The problem with the mozilla in Woody was that it was way to old. The there was the backports that would crash whenever you tried to use the editor, either the html-editor within mozilla, or the editor at http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/, and the editor on classfronter, the Learning Management System (LMS) There were also the binaries from mozilla.org, but those would have been harder to upgrade.
So basicly what I did was to recompile on woody, using gcc-3.0 instead of gcc-29.4 But then we got the problem with java. Well we could just leave out java, but then we would have gotten a lot of complaints. But j2re1.3 which is included with skolelinux, does not work. Newer mozilla's need j2re1.4. So I took the j2re1.4 binary, unpacked it, repacked it into a debian package, following the schemas from the j2re1.3 package. (kind of reversed enginered the package, not the software). I also asked for permission from Sun, and got it, se [1] and [2] Petter have asked me if I've been in contact with the blackdown people, which it at that point hadnot, but SInce then I've tried to send them an mail. Still no answer from them. But what I've done, is that I've created a package from the Package from sun.com. thos are located at the same place as my mozilla packages. (Actually they are in woody-test, but I've created my own repository, which only gives you the packages I want you to test) To test the packages, add the following to your sources.list: deb http://ftp.skolelinux.no/ ~finnarne/mozilla/ then apt-get update && apt-get install mozilla j2re1.4 You may even install the localisation packages for mozilla apt-get install mozilla-locale-xx replace xx with you locale, use apt-cache search mozilla-locale to locate the different languages availible No why all the work about mozilla ? Well, the feedback I'm getting is that it's mozilla that works best with classfronter. Maybe konqueror in kde 3.2 works fine as well, but that is a bigger task to take on, upgrading kde. Since I built mozilla 1.5 for skolelinux, mozilla 1.6 has entered sarge, and I will work on getting mozilla 1.6 to work on skolelinux. But We want to release Skolelinux before sarge stabilizes, so please test and give feedback. And Yes, If I get a response from the blackdown project, I will incorporate their j2re1.4 if it's possible. And No - I have not discussed the java matters with the people at debian-legal or whatever. We, Skolelinux/Debian-edu have permission to include j2re1.4 on our CD. I've not asked on behalf of The Debian Project. That is a matter for some one else, or maybe me, but not before Skolelinux release 1.0. If you want to discuss java License, please start a new thread. [1] http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/sl-packages_appendix/7_JRE_in_Skolelinux_Debian-Edu.eml [2] http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/sl-packages_appendix/8_Re_JRE_in_Skolelinux_Debian-Edu.eml -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/
