[CLUE-Tech] Cannot complete java installation

[Vern Bradley Southern]

Problem Solved, Yeah...

First, Thanks to all for your help.

I was able to add netscape to the path using export instead of setenv. 
The command lind syntax was export LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
/usr/local/netscape:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

While using a Terminal command line I never could get regxpcom to work. 
I had the same problem trying to use a Terminal command line to make a 
link to the java plugin. I can't seem to grasp the unix syntax needed to 
do these things.

I did finally discovered that while using the RedHat 8.0 GUI and being 
logged-in as root I could right click on the plugin 
/usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so and a drop 
down menu appered. One of the options was (Make link) I clicked on the 
option and a link was created in that same directory. I right clicked 
the newly made link and selected (Cut file) and then moved to 
/usr/local/netscape/plugins and right clicked on an empty area in the 
screen and selected (Paste file). When I opened netscape and typed 
about:plugins in the address field I found the java plugins.

I would like to thank you all again. Without your help I would have 
never been able to learn enough from web sites to install this.

vbsouthern at access4less.net


David Anselmi wrote:

> Vern Bradley Southern wrote:
> [...]
>
>> When I get to:
>> 3. For Netscape 6.x browsers: Use the regxpcom tool provided by 
>> Netscape to register Java Plug-in 1.4.
>> Notes:
>> 1. Before you run regxpcom, as described below, first shut down the 
>> browser.
>> 2. setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <Netscape 6>:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
> As mentioned, you probably want:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/netscape:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> This is a path variable so the correct syntax is a colon separated 
> list of paths.
>
> Looks like regxpcom needs to know where the NS libraries are.  You can 
> tell which libraries it's looking for with:
>
> ldd $(which regxpcom)
>
> (or just use the full path to the regxpcom binary rather than the 
> which output).
>
> Most Linux systems don't use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, they use 
> /etc/ld.so.cache.  After you install NS, you can update this with the 
> ldconfig command (and you may have to add NS's path to /etc/ld.so.conf 
> if it is in an odd place).  See the ldconfig man page for details.
>
> This program may or may not require the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, but 
> things will probably work better down the road if you run ldconfig on 
> the NS libraries.  Or I may be completely wrong.
>
> Dave
>
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