Mandrake-Mozilla
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Sjgibbs writes from memory:
Speaking of my own first-time with Mandrake and Mozilla, I managed to get all the way onto the web via KPPP and Konqueror at first. Later with Mozilla I tried to access a page using Mozilla that included a Java Applet. It failed, showing a jigsaw piece icon to prompt me that I needed a plugin.
It was obviously to me that I needed Java installed. I remember the JDK installtion was OK, if a litle complex, but the main problem I had was that the Java Plugin still didn't work. I've tried installing and re-installing the plugin component automatically by clicking on the jigsaw piece icon and that installed fine, but still didn't change anything.
Being a bit familiar with Linux by now I ran Mozilla from a command line and observed an error message descibing a failure to load a particular library (.so file) Googling I found some instructions to "symlink" this file but no joy. Again I'm familiar with symlinking and think I linked the correct files in the right places, but I still cannot veiw Java plugins.
I also cannot get sound in Mozilla although I can with Konquorer. I'm not familiar with sound sub systems on Linux but I believe I'm using "artsd" and can see no place to check what Mozilla is talking to or anyway to tell it to talk to artsd.
I've since installed the latest Mozilla into /usr/local via some installation program (my memory of this is vague) but no joy in this environment either.
So to summarize:
- Mozilla fails to run Java out of the box, even after following the installation procedures in manuals.
- Documented fixes didn't work, or were so unclear a confident user made a mistake following them.
- Mozilla isn't playing sound to artsd.
Flash itself is working well, never any problems there, I don't recall where the plugin came from which suggests the installtion was pretty trivial.
Playing videos from the web is also a general issue, installation of new codecs is pretty opaque although this is mainly a Mandrake / Xine issue. Google helped to solve these issues.
Response:
To get Java to work with Mozilla you have to create a symlink from:
/usr/java/jre_(versionNr)/plugin/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
or if you are using Mozilla version 1.5 or up use
/usr/java/jre_versionNr)/plugin/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
to the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
As root simply type:
ln -s /usr/java/jre_versionNr)/plugin/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
and restart your browser.
Replace "/usr/java/jre_versionNr" with the path to your java runtime catalogue. I believe the rpm uses /usr/java/j2reXX-XX
