Java and Fedora2 / Mozilla1.7

[Hannes Mayer]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> OK, this question has probably been answered before, but
> my search of the mailing list doesnt find the answer.
> 
> If I want to allow Fedora2 / Mozilla 1.7 to run Java, what do I do?
> 
> I have loaded two different copies of Java, and when I 
> load mozilla both give the message:
> 
> ---
> 
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /mnt/home/share/local/mozilla/p
> lugins/java2/plugin/i386/ns600/
> libjavaplugin_oji.so [libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object 
> file: No such file or directory]
> 
> ---
> 
> which SEEMS to be saying that this thing wants libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
> which was (I assume) distributed with a previous version of Linux.
> 
> Is there a more recent version of the JAVA RPM out there that loads with
> current libraries?
> Can I safely make a symbolic link from this name to the CURRENT library?
> Or is JAVA just not runnable from the current Fedora/Mozilla combination?

Try this:
Go to your mozilla installation directory,
# cd plugins
and make a symlink
# ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
assuming you got java installed in /usr/java/....

Cheers,
Hannes.