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Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org> writes:

> I just completed installing a new Freebsd Workstation. It was installed
> totally on-line via "ports" over my DSL connection. It took almost 6
> days to download/compile/install a full KDE system, and it rocks!
>
> After 20-odd years of using SCO then Linux, this freebsd is refreshing.
>
> I have installed Mozilla, Firefox, and Seamonkey as browsers, and have
> successfully installed the Flash Plugin for them.
>
> I installed the Sun Java VM 1.4.2 as per the docs, but when I do an
> about:plugins in any of the browsers I get the following error:
>
> [Shared object "libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libjavaplugin_oji.so"]
>
> A locate libdl returns:
>
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl-2.3.2.so
> /usr/compat/linux/lib/libdl.so.2

That's the Linux version, not a native dl library.

Personally, I don't *have* a native dl library, and I have the regular
native JDK 1.4 installed on the box I'm sitting in front of.

> So, I then did a ports install of the Blackdown JDK 1.4.2
> but it too can't find the same library.
>
> I am at a bit of a loss here, and don't want to stary hacking away at
> this nice clean install :-)

Quite reasonable.

What actual Java-related ports do you have installed?