installing jre into mandrake

[xbillx]

have mandrake 10. installed, and it works fine. downloaded jre from
java.com, and have it on the desktop but can't get it into mozilla
web browser. i use kde(konkorer)but kde says to get plugins into
mozilla and kde will scan those. i am pretty new, so if you respond.
please be as basic and specific as possible. thanks

[apoorv_khurasia]

Have you installed jre or jsdk? If not then install it. The installation noramally needs root prevelidges (check this out??? I am rather new!!!) . Now check whether you have an rpm form or you have the source code. An rpm file is a self installing file type of a thing and you just need to double-click it and provide the root password (analogous but not congurent to administrator of windows). You are through. If its a source code then read the readme.
Normally the following set of commands (of course as super user in the dir conating the code) is

sh configure
make
make install

Then open your mozilla browser and go to
edit>> preferences >> and see advanced tab and all the details that concern you appaer there.

[jeremy1701]

Create a sym link from your java plugins directory to the libjavaplugin_oji.so file

For example, issue this command, of course with your corrected path, in the directory /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_<version>/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

[xbillx]

Well, I guess I need to be a bit clearer. The operative words here are
"basic" and "specific". What I have is Mandrake 10. and on the desktop
is "jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm-bin" (without the quotes). I need to get
this file into my Mozilla browser, so I can view some maps from NOAA that
use java runtime enviroment. Double clicking this icon that is on the
desktop only opens a blank window. Opening the file in Kwrite opens a
window with all the code in it, but I can't get that where it needs to be,
cause I do not know how. Since I don't have java installed, I don't have a
java plugins directory, that I can find. ??

[sdousley]

Well, I guess I need to be a bit clearer. The operative words here are
"basic" and "specific". What I have is Mandrake 10. and on the desktop
is "jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm-bin" (without the quotes).

in order to install this, you will need to run:

sh jre-1_5_0_02-linux-i586-rpm-bin

[xbillx]

Here is what it took to get jre working after getting it installed.

cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.2/plugins<enter>
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so<enter>

then, in konqueror: settings, configure konqueror, java and java script,
in the java executable block at the bottom of the window

/usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/

There it was, all working and everything. Thanks for all the help from both
of you, as you were right on track and just needed more exact info from me.
Tux loses this one.

[rottie68]

This was the only line that could get Java running in Firefox 2.0 for me:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so

If the plugin wasn't installed when the link was made, it just wouldn't work.

The instructions I followed are at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/firefox-linux.html under "How do I Install Java?"

[nugman]

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so

I use this line, it creates the link, but doesn't work. I then go into the plugins directory and it says it's broken. Mysteriously, it disappears after clicking on it in the gui directory. Strange. I cannot understand why it won't create a solid link.

[nugman]

oh jeez, it's got to be a permissions problem..it has root group permissions..i'll have to chmod it to my user permissions.

[nugman]

Giving it user permissions still doesnt work.