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Paul Cartwright

9 Feb 2006 9 Feb '06

13:24

I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do??? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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Paul Cartwright

9 Feb 9 Feb

13:33

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5-<SOLVED>

On Thu February 9 2006 8:24 am, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

never mind... read the docs and: If you installed the Java Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6, this plugin is /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following: * Open a terminal * Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory * Issue the following command: ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

James Knott

13:34

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

Why are you using such an old version of Mozilla. The latest is 1.7.x IIRC.

Paul Cartwright

13:39

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

On Thu February 9 2006 8:34 am, James Knott wrote:

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Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

Why are you using such an old version of Mozilla. The latest is 1.7.x IIRC.

sorry, that should have read MozillaFirefox 1.5 newly installed.. rpm -qa|grep -i Moz mozilla-nspr-4.6-3 mozilla-nss-3.10-12 MozillaFirefox-1.0.7-0.1 mozilla-mail-1.7.11-9.2 mozilla-1.7.11-9.2 hmm... my local install for my user is firefox 1.5 .. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Dimych

13:43

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

You neither mentioned the SuSE version nor platform, but if you are on 64-bit, there is no plugin yet (from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/system-configurations.html): "Browser Footnotes Browsers listed above are supported for JavaTM Plug-in software and JavaTM Web Start software. Further details: - 64-bit support for Java Plug-in software is currently not available - For 64-bit versions of Solaris OS, Linux and Windows support is for 32-bit browsers only - Support for Netscape 4.7.x on Solaris 8 on SPARC and x86 - Internet Explorer 5.5 (SP2+), 6.x on Windows platforms - Netscape 7 and 7.1 are not offically supported, but should work " Dmitry

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-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Jos van Kan

15:16

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

In Mozilla's plugins directory make a symlink to FULL_PATH_TO_JRE/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

Randall R Schulz

15:29

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

Paul, On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:24, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

How did you install? RPM? Tarball? The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

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Steve Graegert

15:38

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

On 2/9/06, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Paul,

On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:24, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

How did you install? RPM? Tarball?

The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

Hmm, sorry for poppin' in, but I suppose the issue has already been solved (see message "RE: java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5 <SOLVED>"). \Steve -- Steve Graegert Software Consultant {C/C++ && Java && .NET} Office: +49 9131 7123988 Mobile: +49 1520 9289212

Randall R Schulz

16:04

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

Steve, On Thursday 09 February 2006 07:38, Steve Graegert wrote:

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On 2/9/06, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Paul,

On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:24, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

How did you install? RPM? Tarball?

The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

Hmm, sorry for poppin' in, but I suppose the issue has already been solved (see message "RE: java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5 <SOLVED>").

I'm aware of that. My question is still valid and stands. Installation with the RPM should not require the manual step. That and related manual plug-in installation steps is why I eschew tarball installations for the Mozilla.org browsers.

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\Steve

Randall Schulz

Steve Graegert

16:29

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

On 2/9/06, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Steve,

On Thursday 09 February 2006 07:38, Steve Graegert wrote:

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On 2/9/06, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Paul,

On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:24, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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I was trying to view a web page that requires a java plug-in. I have jre-1.5.0_06-fcs installed. Mozilla 1.5 ( newly installed) still says it needs a plug-in. Is there a secret handshake I need to do???

How did you install? RPM? Tarball?

The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

Hmm, sorry for poppin' in, but I suppose the issue has already been solved (see message "RE: java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5 <SOLVED>").

I'm aware of that. My question is still valid and stands.

Installation with the RPM should not require the manual step. That and related manual plug-in installation steps is why I eschew tarball installations for the Mozilla.org browsers.

Ahh! Okay, totally agree with you. What I read so far, taking into consideration the output from "rpm -qa", it is very likely that it's not been an RPM installation. That's why the symlinks must be setup manually as you mentioned correctly. \Steve -- Steve Graegert Software Consultant {C/C++ && Java && .NET} Office: +49 9131 7123988 Mobile: +49 1520 9289212

Paul Cartwright

17:21

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

On Thu February 9 2006 11:29 am, Steve Graegert wrote:

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Ahh! Okay, totally agree with you. What I read so far, taking into consideration the output from "rpm -qa", it is very likely that it's not been an RPM installation. That's why the symlinks must be setup manually as you mentioned correctly.

and then you run into issues with firefox, depending on what button you push to start it, it will bring up a different version of Firefox!!! I have /opt/Mozilla, and the local copy of 1.5 that I installed in my directory. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Paul Cartwright

17:17

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

On Thu February 9 2006 10:29 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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How did you install? RPM? Tarball?

tar

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The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

did you find an rpm for firefox 1.5 ?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

Randall R Schulz

17:47

New subject: [SLE] java plug-in for Mozilla 1.5

Paul, On Thursday 09 February 2006 09:17, Paul Cartwright wrote:

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The RPM I got from the SuSE server did not require this step--the symlink was there upon completion of the installation.

did you find an rpm for firefox 1.5 ??

No. But Jim Cunning did: http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.5.0.1

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