[wellylug] whereabouts of Java Runtime Environment under mdk 10.0?

Glen Ogilvie nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz
Sun May 9 11:33:18 NZST 2004


You can also source the JRE from the mandrake club website if you are a club 
member.. however, the Sun version should work ok..  To get the sun version 
working with mozilla, their is a little trick (on Mandrake 9.1 anyway)... 
which is,

you have to create a symlink from:

/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

or, more generic
/usr/java/"your java vesion"/jre/plugin/i386/ns610"maybe gcc 
here"/libjavaplugin_oji.so

and create the link to
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins

or whatever version of mozilla you use.  This will then allow java applets to 
work.

Glen


On Saturday 08 May 2004 10:54 am, Wood Brent wrote:
> --- Colin & Josephine Lewis <cjlewis at amcom.co.nz> wrote:
> > I thought I would have a play with using the autopilot under Oo1.1.0, but
> > got the following error message "Open Office 1.1.0 was configured to use
> > the JRE located at /usr/lib/jdk-1.4.1.  This JRE was not found."
>
> Java Runtime Engine is proprietary software owned & distributed by Sun. As
> such I don't think it is on the Mandrake disks. There is an Open Source
> equivalent of java (kaffe) bundled with Mandrake. How compatible this will
> be with OO I don't know. You may be able to point OO at this instead of the
> official JRE if you have installed it.
>
> Type
>  java --help
> & it should run /usr/bin/java, & say it is actually kaffe & give you basic
> instructions in invoking it.
>
> If you need it, JRE is free, and can be downloaded & installed if you need
> it.
>
> Click on J2SE JRE here to download...
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Brent Wood




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