Adding Java2 pluggin to Netscape 6.2

[Brian Densmore]

Go here and get the official plug-in in either rpm or tar and follow the
install instructions.
You cannot install java from Netscrape. You will also probably need to
be root to install.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

Or get the blackdown version (recommended):
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.3.1/
i386/FCS/

The blackdown version is a tar file bzipped file (big long name like
jre2-1.3.1-FCS-Linux-blah.tar.bz2). You will need to have bzip2
installed You untar (tar -xvjf jre...) it into a directory, open up a
console (terminal) and [run the install program, I think. It's been a
while]. Anyway once you have it untarred, read the readme and install
files if they exist, they will give you the proper instructions. It's a
bit of a pain, but it should work quite well. I have been running it for
a while now.

Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lindinger [mailto:jilindi at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:55 AM
> To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
> Subject: Adding Java2 pluggin to Netscape 6.2
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I've installed Netscape 6.2 via the web download installer.  
> I chose "Recommeded" config
> that does not install the Java pluggin. The Netscape 6.2 
> installed and works fine.
> 
> I have hit several web pages that need the Java2 plugin and I 
> am offered the opportunity
> to get and install it. This "automatic" process me failed 
> twice, so I followed a
> suggestion in the error message and I manually downloaded a 
> 14MB file via FTP named...
> 
>   jre131_02.xpi 
> 
> I cannot find any direction for extracting the contents of 
> this file.  Running the
> netscape-installer executable simply begins the install 
> process from scratch, including
> downloading all the selected .xpi files. It's not smart 
> enough to recognize the files are
> already present locally.
> 
> Does anybody know how to process the jre131_02.xpi file and 
> exract the needed files into
> the /usr/local/netscape/plugins directory?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Lindinger
> 
> PS - I do not believe that the Java runtime environment was 
> installed by my Redhat 7.0
> installation. Does that matter?
> 
> 
> 
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