On Sunday 16 December 2001 11:56, you wrote:
> Ditto.  I've had some good experiences like Steve below with Mozilla's
> installer.  Don't forget that to install flash and java you may need
> some extra steps.  Flash is pretty straight forward, follow the README.
> You will need to download and install jre from java.sun.com .  Then
> create a symlink from
> /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so to you
> mozilla plugin directory, for me:
>
> "ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_01/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/ "
>
> To give credit where it's due, someone on #mandrake on
> irc.openprojects.org helped me figure this out.  You can get help there
> too if you need it, try xhcat from the networking menu.

*smiles and winks*
Cheers
>
> -Paul Rodr�guez
>
> On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 13:12, Steve wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Michael Leone wrote:
> > > I currently have Mozilla 0.9.4, running on 8.1. I used to have Moz
> > > 0.9.5, from Cooker, but had to remove it, for some reason (I forget
> > > why). Anyway, I can't seem to find that version anymore, only 0.9.6 ...
> > > which uses a different libpng. I'm a bit leery about updating libpng,
> > > since many apps depend on it.
> > >
> > > I tried rebuilding from src.rpms, but that didn't work. I also tried
> > > using RedHat's rpms, but had no luck rebuilding.
> > >
> > > Has anybody done this - updated to 0.9.6 from Cooker, with associated
> > > libpng upgrade? And if so, has it broken any applications? I'm thinking
> > > specifically of things like Evolution, Konqueror, Opera, GIMP, etc.
> >
> > Michael, I've always had better luck using the official Mozilla
> > binaries/installer. I'm using 8.1 as well and I've never had to worry
> > about this dependency you're having and I'm using the latest nightly.
> >
> > Since you appear to have an official Mandrake mozilla package, leave it
> > installed and install using mozilla's net install. Then all you need to
> > do is call mozilla from the command line using the default path, which
> > is /usr/local/mozilla. A bit of a kludge but it's the easiest way to do
> > things IMHO.
> >
> > HTH.
>
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