On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 12:49, Perry, David J wrote:
> I need to install  java support for Mozilla 1.0.1 on Redhat 8.0.   I can't access  
> many of the features on the telstra.com site such as web mail and shmbo is getting 
> bolshy and saying "why can't I have Windows back?"
> 
> My RH8.0 box at work was installed with all applications loaded (it took several 
> hours!) and Mozilla works well on it.  This presumably means that the java 
> (plugins?) must be on the RH8.0 install disks but I can't identify them.
> 
> Does anyone have a simple explanation for installing the java plugins?  I have 
> searched Google and am rather overwhelmed by the instructions I have seen so far.

Here is what I have just done to enable Java in Galeon 1.3.2 (Mozilla 1.3 beta2) on 
Mandrake 9.1 rc2 (default Java doesn't work well for Internet Banking):

Downloaded Sun JRE 1.4.0_3 from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html

Extracted the j2re1.4.0_3 directory and moved it to /usr/lib

Ran 'update-alternatives /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/j2re1.4.0_3/bin/java 40'

Ran 'ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.4.0_3/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.3b/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so'


I don't know if Redhat 8.0 uses Debian's /etc/alternatives system, but if it does, 
this setup works very well.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

John...
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