Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Johnny Ernst Nielsen (johnny.ernst.nielsen@xxxxxxxxxx) [030313 23:20]:


->Did you get around Mozilla?
->If so, has the Mozilla-Java thing been fixed?
->In 8.1 the Java plugin Mozilla downloaded would not work, because 
->SuSEs Mozilla was compiled with GCC 3, and the plugin was compiled 
->with GCC 2.95

You can get around this without any trouble. Just go to this site to
read about them...they put a very nice GCC 3.2 compiled package of JAVA
1.4.1 and it works just fine with Mozilla when it's compiled with GCC
3.2. :)

http://www.blackdown.org 

Or you can just ftp directly here and get it...

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01

The file you want is called " j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin ".

After downloading just move it to /usr/lib and do this..

1. chmod +x j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
2. ./j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin

This will unpack it into " /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1 "

You do not have to change the default settings for Java at all. Instead
you just make a softlink from your /opt/mozilla/plugins directory to the
plugins directory in /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/ and it should look like this...

libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so

After making this softlink then Java should work just fine with your GCC
3.2 compiled browser. :)

It's not the best solution but it's a hell of a lot better then waiting
for Sun to pull the heads from where then Sun doesn't shine in order to
get a GCC 3.2 compiled pkg from them. And blackdown's been around a
long time. I've never heard complaints about them.

Cheers!
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