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Monday, August 07, 2006

JRE plugin for Firefox

To run applets, we need the Java Runtime plugin for the browser. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) plugin for mozilla is available alongwith the JRE installation. For example, if the JRE is installed in the following location:

/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_10/

Then go it its plugin directory. You may find such directories:
ns4/ ns610/ ns610-gcc32/

All of them contain a file named libjavaplugin.so.

One of these is the shared object plugin that you want.

Now go to .mozilla/plugins/ directory in your home.
create a soft link of the above file here:
ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_10/plugin/i386/ns4/libjavaplugin.so .

If this happens to be the right plugin your firefox will now be able to run applets without trouble. If it's not, firefox will not run. If that happens just remove the
soft link:
unlink libjavaplugin.so from the mozilla/plugins directory and try the libjavaplugin.so files in the other directories in /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_10/plugin/i386/.

One of them should work.
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