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   a_dude
   Member

   hello, first of all, love this distro. What a great job these guys do! but...for some reason, I can't get java to work in firefox 3.6.6.. I've downloaded jre 1.6 from the repo. BTW, I am using a Dell latitude C640 w/ 512 megs ram. I am hoping someone can tell me to symlink a java file to a folder, them wammo! it will work. Thanks in advance for any help, your all aces in my book. Puppy rocks!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=437776445&t=61287

   Try making the link change sinbar talks about with your current java.If that fails remove the java you have installed and try one from the post.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   a_dude
   Member

   thank you for replying so quickly. "Try making the link change sinbar talks about with your current java.If that fails remove the java you have installed and try one from the post. "
   is sinbar a user? I have no clue what he recommends. can I have a link from you? thanks. I have tried removing, then re-installing with no luck. I seem to remember that there is a way to symlink a java file to a directory buried in ./mozilla directory, but it has been so long ago that I had to do that that I have long forgotten.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   Click on the red link that is in my first post.It will take you to a thread on teh puppylinux forum that you should read.Macpup is based on puppy 5.2.0 .

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   a_dude
   Member

   thank you for the link. I am afraid that despite our best efforts, I can't get java working. I have a full install, so the sfs does me no good. I tried the .pet with no positive results. Lets leave this for now.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   To use a .sfs in a full install. After you download the .sfs you just click once on it to mount it .Then you just copy all of it stuff over to your system.

   Give me a few days and I will look into this more. Hang on...

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   a_dude
   Member

   thank you for your interest and efforts. I must say, this is the most visually beautiful Puppy distro I have ever used. E17 and even JWM are well thought out for their visual effects. bravo! Of the three distros on my Dell C640, this is the one I use now.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   Ok , I got it to work. This is a shot of the KGS go server using the java browser plugin:

   http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j106/runtt21/java.jpg

   First thing you need to do to delete everything in /usr/java but leave that folder you will need it.

   Go to this page and download and save the Linux self extracting file it's 20.2 MB Copy these instruction down. And close firefox.

   http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com

   First move the jre-6u24-linux-i586.bin you just downloaded into /usr/java

   Open a terminal there and run:

   chmod a+x jre-6u24-linux-i586.bin

   It should change color from black to red in rox.

   Then run :

   ./jre-6u24-linux-i586.bin

   Don't do anything else untill you see the "done" in the terminal window.

   Then run :

   cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

   ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_24/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

   Thats it. Now open fire fox and run about:plugins in the address bar and see if java is listed down at the bottom.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   runtt21
   Moderator

   This is really cool. I made a link in /usr/sbin to /usr/java/jre1.6.0_24/bin/javaws and now java web start is working. I am able to run the full client from KGS.

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    a_dude
    Member

    Thank you for your interest and hard work. I am downloading now and I will follow your instructions to the letter.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    a_dude
    Member

    O.K., I had a snag. Everything you recommended worked fine and dandy until the last command:

    runtt21
    Then run :

    cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

    ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_24/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

    It created a link that had a yellow icon with a exclamation mark in the center. I did start up firefox and checked the plugins, with nothing mentioned about java. So, knowing the intention of the command was to create a sym link from the directory /usr/java/jre1.6.0_24/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, I simply used rox to create the link (after deleting the bogus links). now all is well and java works. thank you for your efforts once again.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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