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Re: [LUG] little Linux story...

 

jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>   THe instructions are;

Where from?

>   1. Install Java Runtime Environment.
>   2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins 
> directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 
> or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2.
> ....so, OK, fair enough. Except I don't know how to make a symbolic link. I 
> don't expect it's too difficult. Should I google it? Or is it more complex 
> that that?

The sun-java6-plugin package in Debian non-free takes care of all this
for you, I'd expect Ubuntu to have this package or something even easier
(not sure how it could get easier - other than Debian setting up
non-free repositories for those that don't care (and I'm not sure we'd
want that ;-).

Sounds like you are installing SUN JRE from SUN shar files? If so you
are doing it the hard way, and it may not auto-update nicely when the
inevitable security fixes come out, when the packaged versions should.

 Simon

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