[SATLUG] Linux JAVA

[Andrew Hodel]

You are correct, as I recall mozilla will no longer crash, however the 
plugin won't load correctly.  Probably has to do with absolute paths in 
the java build.

I don't know why I didn't say ln -s, I just had to figure this out the 
other day.




Andrew

Mike Wallace wrote:

>>Once you are in that directory, cp plugins/* to
>>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ or /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
>>    
>>
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>Do not copy the library.  Create a symlink instead.  There was a
>problem where Mozilla would crash if you copied the plugin rather than
>creating a symlink to it.  I know this was true for Java 1.4, but I
>don't know if it was fixed or not for Java 1.5.  You can try to copy
>the plugin, but if Mozilla crashes you'll know why.
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