Here's what I did to get java working in Mozilla 0.9.1 under Linux (Debian Woody):
1) Download x86 Talkback enabled Full Installer. The Net Installer consistently
failed to download all the components, despite my reliable, high-speed internet
connection.
2) Run installer normally.
3) Download jre.xpi from
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.0/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi
This url is on mozilla.org's release notes page.
4) Jre.xpi is just a zip file with an installing javascript (which I didn't use).
Unzip jre.xpi (You might need to rename it to jre.zip)
5) This unzips to jre-image-i386. Mkdir {mozilla install base}/plugins/java2
6) Move jre-image-i386/* to {mozilla install base}/plugins/java2
6) Link (ln -s)
{mozilla install base}/plugins/java2/plugins/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
to {mozilla install base}/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Hope this helps,
John Paul
John Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> This has been reported on Bugzilla but I wanted to get your opinions
> and see if there's a workaround. I'm not hopeful that the Mozilla
> folks will be fixing this anytime soon...
>
> When I go to certain sites that require Java, I'm prompted to download
> the Java plugin. Mozilla dutifully goes out to netscape.com to download
> the plugin but apparently has an incorrect URL. Not only isn't the
> Linux Java plugin at the URL but it tries to download a Windows 32
> EXE! To add insult to injury, the "unsucessful download" page
> recommends that I try to FTP the windows version by hand.
>
> Urrrmmm... excuse me. Java runs on Linux too.
>
> So I can't run any Java stuff using Mozilla. They've apparently
> embedded incorrect URLs in the Mozilla code (that's a poor strategy
> for download localization).
>
> Any ideas on how I can fix this?
>
> -- John
