[gentoo-user] firefox java plugin wierdness

2006-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi All, long time no post (at least 2 hours :) I'm having what looks like strange font problems with some java applets. After a recent upgrade of something, I no longer had a java plugin. So I typed: $ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins $ sudo ln -s /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03/plugin/i386/mo

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Mark Knecht
I use the sun-bin-jre. Download it yourself and place it under dev-java. (I think!) Then add this to /etc/portage/package.use: dev-java/sun-jre-bin nsplugin dev-java/blackdown-jre nsplugin dev-java/blackdown-jdk nsplugin -mozilla and do your emerge. Hope this helps, Mark On 2/19/06, Iain Buchan

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 13:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > > the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with > > most sites. > > what jre would you recommend? > -- > Iain Buchanan > > What one fool can do, another can.

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:02 +1300, Glenn Enright wrote: > the blakcdown version is a little dated now, but should still work with most > sites. what jre would you recommend? -- Iain Buchanan What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Glenn Enright
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:39, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > I can't seem to find out how to get java working again in firefox (1.5). > I am running blackdown (std, 1.4.2) and I simply don't get java with > most sites now. Is it possible that I need to update to sun's 1.5? > Cheers > Antoine the blakcd

[gentoo-user] firefox java plugin

2006-02-19 Thread Antoine
Hi, I can't seem to find out how to get java working again in firefox (1.5). I am running blackdown (std, 1.4.2) and I simply don't get java with most sites now. Is it possible that I need to update to sun's 1.5? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list