Java and browsers

[Shayne Patton]

Brian Densmore wrote:

>Several response in here:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: amoore
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>>On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:27:40PM -0600, Brian Densmore wrote:
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>>>Oh yeah and do any of the debian folks out there know where 
>>>in blazing *#!? debian sticks java when it's installed?
>>>I can't find it anywhere, but dpkg tells me it's installed
>>>just fine!?
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>>Where does dpkg tell you that it's installed?
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>>You did try something like "dpkg -L <some package>" already, 
>>didn't you?
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>Yeah, it told me: package? what package? I don't see no stinking package!
>Since I use apt-get to install stuff, I have no clue where apt sticks
>the packages it install to I can't list the package.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brian Kelsey
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>>The java plugin should be in the plugin dir under Mozilla.  
>>Then again, I could be wrong.  Try "locate java*".  It will probably be too broad.
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>haven't done a locate or find yet. I generally try to avoid them as
>I generally start out too broad and it runs forever.
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>>Looking at this: 
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=java&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensit
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>>there are 151 pages of java stuff.  If you have the Java SDK,
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>Yeah tell me about it!
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>>it could be in /etc/jdk1.1 or 
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>Wow, I never thought to look in /etc for java!!!!
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>>look in /usr/bin/java-vm or 
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>nope
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>>/usr/lib/jdk1.1 or 
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>nope
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>>/usr/include/mozilla-*/java.
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>nope
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Shayne Patton 
>>have you tried running " find / -name java | grep bin" or 
>>"locate java | grep bin" ?
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>Why the grep bin?
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>Thanks,
>Brian
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"grep bin" narrows it down so you don't bring EVREYTHING up, just the 
bin, which is typically what you want (you can use the plugin.so thing, 
but often I've had just as much luck making a "ln -sf" to the actual 
java bin in the Mozilla plugins folder.

Universally,
Shayne