xen's Debian Tip-of-the-Day: Getting Mozilla to Java and more (March 7, 2002)
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A common question I run into when people stopped using Netscape under
Linux was how to get Mozilla to still support Java applets. Although
there are several ways of doing this, one of the easiest methods for
getting Debian Mozilla to use Java applets is right in the
README.Debian included with the package. There's a lesson to be
learned here. Read the READMEs included with packages that you install
or upgrade.
1) First, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody non-free
2) Next, run 'apt-get update'.
3) Then, run 'apt-get install j2re1.3'
What this will do is install the Blackdown Java Linux runtime
environment packaged for Debian.
4) In Mozilla, click on Edit/Preferences/Advanced then check on Enable
Java.
After going through the above steps, Mozilla will now work nicely with
Java applets.
And that's my Debian tip for today.
Have any questions or tips about Debian GNU/Linux? I'm open to ideas
for what to write about in my future articles.
MORE ON PLUG-INS (CodeWeaver's CrossOver)
For other neat plug-ins, you might also want to give the CrossOver
PlugIn from CodeWeavers a try (http://www.codeweavers.com). They've
done an excellent job of integrating Windows plug-ins using WINE and
to date, support the following plug-ins: QuickTime 5, Shockwave 8.5,
Windows Media Player 6.4, RealPlayer 8 Basic, Authorware Web Player 6,
Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint Viewer 97/2000, Trillian, iPIX 6, MGI
3.2, Chime 2.6, MODPlug, VP3 for QuickTime, eFax Messenger 2.
I've gotten the first three to working, and suspect that the other
plugins will work as well. I'll leave a review of this neat product to
Jeff Guttierez, who has been smitten by it. He's actually explored
more of the product than I have and will probably have more to tell
you about it than I can. Thanks to Paolo Carballo for introducing the
product to me.
Warning: the CrossOver plug-in is crippleware. To get the full benefit
of the product, you pay $25.95 for it. This enables the CodeWeavers
team to continue working on WINE and contribute free code to it. I
think it's a small price to pay to forward the advancement of their
work on WINE, which is under an X11 like license.
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