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Originally posted by Teh_Roxor:
I am using Mozilla 1.5. When I try to install the Flash plugin, it says it is successfully installed but it does not work. Sun's Java plugin is acting similarly.
http://howto.linuxkungfu.org/java/Here is a tutorial on java in mandrake 9. You will have to change a few things. First the instructions for the version of java you use. Second the location of the mozilla directory.
Mandrake doesn't come with Java support. Kaffe doesn't count. So here is the way I get the official Sun Java to work on my Mandrake 9 install. It works well enough that I can run Java apps such as LimeWire, so I imagine that it is working properly. I'm not a huge fan of Java, although it is nice to have official something for Linux.
I will assume for this tutorial that you are mildly familiar with the command line, so I will not tell you to press Enter every time, and I won't tell you to open a console. I will assume that you know how to browse webpages and know how to download a file to your home directory. If you can't do these things, find out first, and then come back to this tutorial later. But if you managed to get Linux installed, you ought not to have a problem with this.
Go and download the Java RPM from Sun's Java Page. The most current version at the time of this writing is j2re1.4.1, and I will assume that you have the same version. So make changes where appropriate if you have a different version.
When you reach the page that lists all the downloads, choose the JRE Download for "Linux RPM in self-extracting file." Save this to your home directory somewhere. If you want to do Java developing, you can get the SDK version, which is nearly twice the size, and requires an extra couple of steps that I will outline below.
Now, from a console, you need to run this file like so: sh j2re-1_4_1_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin. Read the license and agree to it. After you accept the license, it will extract the RPM. (If you got the SDK, substitute the filename where appropriate.)
This will produce an output file called j2re-1_4_1_01-fcs-linux-i586.rpm, which you must now install. In the console, run su. Enter the password for root when it asks you for it. Now, run rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_1_01-fcs-linux-i586.rpm. The Sun JRE is now installed, but it is not the default for your system yet. We will fix this now. (If you got the SDK, substitute the filename where appropriate.)
In the same console, as the root user still, we must go and delete the old symlinks and replace them with new ones that point to the Sun Java binaries.
If you downloaded the J2RE, run the following sequence of commands:
cd /usr/bin
rm java javac jar
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java java
If you downloaded the J2SDK, run the following sequence of commands:
cd /usr/bin
rm java javac jar
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java java
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/javac javac
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/jar jar
Now, in order to be able to use Java in browsers, such as Mozilla, Galeon, and so forth, you must complete these additional steps:
cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.1/plugins/
If you got the J2RE, use this command:
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
If you got the J2SDK, use this command:
ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
Now you are done, and you can close the console. Try installing a Java program, such as LimeWire, and it should work just fine.
I will try to keep this tutorial up to date from time to time, but it is not really my priority, since I really only installed Java for the purpose of installing LimeWire.
