Baldur wrote:
> I am running Mandrake 8.0 Linux, with Xfree 4.1 and KDE 2.2.
>
> I have been trying to get up on the "New_Age"jukebox at Yahoo, via a
> bookmark. With Netscape 4.77 and 6.1 had no problem loading the file. I
> downloaded JRE 1.3.1, made the patch, and the system shows that I am
> running Java 1.3.1 and the symbolic link appears in the Mozilla plugin
> folder. However, when I try to play something from Yahoo, I am told that I
> need the Java plugin, which I tried, and had it error out on installation -
> twice, to download before I went to BlackDown and successfully downloaded.
> In addition when I try to log on to any other of their jukeboxes, a helper
> screen comes up and tells me that RealPlayer is not loaded. What gives?
>
> Also Realplayer 8 for linux, will play, but has trouble getting started,
> sometimes have to kill it and restart. Once it is up and running, it works
> fine - on any site except Yahoo that is.
>
> Thanks
>
> Deb
>
I'm not sure what you meant when you said the system says you're running
Java, but if you haven't, try typing about:plugins in the url bar. It
will pull up a list of plugins that mozilla curently detects (also works
with Netscape).
With Mandrake, you never really needed to download Java; the plugin is
already included in the default install for netscape. Just create a
symbolic link from
/usr/local/netscape/plugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
to
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
As for Real Player, I just started using it yesterday. I had a similar
problem with cnn.com, which I posted to this ng. It was a simple a
solution of clearing the cookies (Edit > Preferences > Privacy &
Security > Cookies > View Stored Cookies).
It's behaved well for me so far; I did the rpm install and so far
nothing buggy. I'm on Red Hat with the 2.4.3-12 kernel.
-Mike
