From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 14:57:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6F7337B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26B543E6E for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 253124FC9F; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7D04A0D; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:54:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:54:52 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Wolfgang Zeikat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Subject: java plugin for mozilla 1.1 on FBSD 4.7? In-Reply-To: <200210112245.15578.w.zeikat@hamburg.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:45:14 +0200 > From: Wolfgang Zeikat > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Subject: java plugin for mozilla 1.1 on FBSD 4.7? > > Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org > > > hi, > i installed the mozilla-devel port in freebsd 4.7, it shows no plugins > installed at all, and now i wonder where to get/how to install a java plugin > and plugins for flash, real player stuff and pdf. > > i have linux-netscape-navigator-4.79 installed, can i use it's plugins with > mozilla 1.1? > > mozilla starts with the error: > LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library > /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so [Cannot > open "/usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so"] > > the java/jre port seems to be version jre1.1.8, should that be installed (it > had security issues didn't it)? > > regards, > wolfgang > > One way to get that plugin is to install the FreeBSD port of JDK 1.3.1 - this is an arduous process, but works very well when done. There's a lot of manual schlepping to be done, due I believe, to the license. I installed it, it took about 2 beers to build and setup worked fine! I'm running native mozilla 1.2a, and I have it linked to the plugin in /ns610 and it works fine. (HA! a lot to go through for a native plugin ...:) HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message