I did not know that there were any apt sources for java...yahooo! Thanks, Ill give that a try and see if it works
Thanks Again, Jason Self On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:40, Andy Wettstein wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:26:30PM -0500, karrottop wrote: > > Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I > > thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed > > something up somewhere. Here is what I did: > > > > First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added this to a line in my > > /etc/profile > > > > PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin" > > > > Then I copied the symlink in /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/ to my > > ~/.mozilla/plugins folder. Now here is the wierd part. There are 3 sets > > of plugins in there ns4 ns600 and ns610. If I use the ns4 plugin > > java:plugin does tell me that it is loaded but when I go to a site that > > requires java_vm it tells me that the plugin does not exist. if I use > > either of the other two plugins it simply crashes my browser (makes it > > disappear) I have gotten a terminal message that tells me it could not > > exec java_vm. I have also had my Path statement like it is commonly > > done in my ~/.bash_profile with the export path but that did not work > > either. > > Maybe you can try putting this in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian unstable main > non-free > > Then run apt-get update && apt-get install j2re1.4 (or j2sdk1.4 if you > need the sdk) > > Substitute unstable for stable in that line and j2re1.4 for j2re1.3, if > you run stable. > > > > > Thanks for the help, > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
