please kill the HTML mail.. I wondered why it was 12k .... Anyhoo, ns4 is most certinaly the wrong directory I'm no sure with your java runtime what is correct it could be ns600 or ns610 or something like about:plugins in Mozilla is your friend :-)
also if you are using RH8.0 the plugin will probably need to be compiled with gcc 3.2 so that might be in a separate dir as well.. Dave. On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Rowling, Jill wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to get some Java apps to display with Mozilla but it's not > happening. > > The system is x86 (Dell), Red Hat 8 distro, fairly vanilla. > I've loaded the Sun Java run time (j2re-1.4.2_03-fcs as an RPM) which has > installed itself OK. > Mozilla is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830, > build 2002083014 > And has "java enabled" in preferences. > I've added this to my .bashrc: > JAVAHOME=/usr/java > NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=$JAVAHOME/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns4 > export JAVAHOME > export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH > > These values are active: > ls $NPX_PLUGIN_PATH > libjavaplugin.so > > But when I run Mozilla to look at a java application, either on this machine > (in the installed samples) or a remote machine's live application, > Mozilla displays an icon like a jigsaw puzzle piece and an error popup like > this: > > "This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that can > only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in" > > Do I have to add all the java .so's to the Mime types (if so, which ones > would be appropriate?) or do I also have to install the Java compilers etc.? > Or is this version of Mozilla too old? > (The remote java app is only partially viewable in Win2k/Citrix but that's a > different problem; I figured if the local application doesn't work at all > then there's something I have to fix. The local (to Linux) application is > the Sun Java dashboard that comes with the RPM. It should at least load > something.). > > Regards, > > Jill. > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
