When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I wanted to get into a chat room. After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Greg
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:38:59PM -0500, Gregory Avedissian wrote: avedis> avedis> When I got home last night, I tried Mozilla again, and now I remember why I avedis> stopped using it. I had trouble trying to download the java plugin when I avedis> wanted to get into a chat room. Heh. I remember having the same problem, but I just decided to never use java on the web. avedis> After another failed attempt to download it with the browser, I tried gftp avedis> and got the file, jre131i.xpi but I have no idea what do do with it. There avedis> weren't any readme files nearby at the ftp site. Any ideas or suggestions are avedis> welcome. Thanks. I believe it goes in the plugin directory, which is: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or $HOME/.mozilla/plugins depending whether you want it systemwide or not. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:51:48PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: cra> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins Nope. I just went and tried it myself. I couln't get the darn automatic installation to work, so I did this: #!/bin/sh # Download the jre.xpi cd $HOME wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.1/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi # Go to your mozilla plugin directory cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins # Make a java2 subdirectory and go into it mkdir java2 cd java2 # Unzip the xpi file here (yes, it is a ZIP file) unzip $HOME/jre.xpi # Move the contents of jre-image-i386 up one directory # and remove the istaller junk that doesn't work mv jre-image-i386/* . rm -rf symlink.sh install.js jre-image-i386 # Make a symlink in the plugin dir to the actual plugin binary cd .. ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so . It seems to work. No more annoying "download the plugin" dialog boxes. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886
Charles, Thanks for the reply. I tried this with the file I downloaded and that didn't work, so then I went back and got the same file you got, and it still didn't work. Not sure why - it all seemed to install ok. But I still get that damned box coming up. Greg On Thursday 14 March 2002 18:14, you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:51:48PM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: cra> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Nope. I just went and tried it myself. I couln't get the darn automatic installation to work, so I did this:
#!/bin/sh # Download the jre.xpi cd $HOME wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.1/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi
# Go to your mozilla plugin directory cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins
# Make a java2 subdirectory and go into it mkdir java2 cd java2
# Unzip the xpi file here (yes, it is a ZIP file) unzip $HOME/jre.xpi
# Move the contents of jre-image-i386 up one directory # and remove the istaller junk that doesn't work mv jre-image-i386/* . rm -rf symlink.sh install.js jre-image-i386
# Make a symlink in the plugin dir to the actual plugin binary cd .. ln -s java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
It seems to work. No more annoying "download the plugin" dialog boxes.
-- Charles R. Anderson <cra@wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886 _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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