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EnableJavaForMozillaAndRH8

netscape.com has a plugin finder which should make this easy but it just didn't want to work for me. Here is what I did:

get j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html .

run it to extract the .rpm:

chmod +x j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin
./j2re-1_4_1_02-linux-i586-rpm.bin

install the .rpm:

su
rpm -Uv j2re-1_4_1_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm

link the appropriate plugin in mozilla's plugin directory:

ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_02/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/plugins/

restart mozilla. Now go to Help->About Plug-ins and the java plugin ought to be there. Congratulations.

There are instructions for debian here: http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml

AlexFerguson - 25 Mar 2003