The Blackdown Java(TM) 2 RE, Standard Edition, v1.3.1 FCS available in three installation formats. * A bzipped tarball which can be used to install the Java2 RE in a location chosen by the user - Change to the directory you want to install into, e.g /usr/local % cd /usr/local - Extract the contents of the Java 2 RE % tar xvfI j2re-1.3.1-FCS-linux-.tar.bz2 (Replace with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace with i386 if your on an Intel system.) - Add j2re1.3.1/bin to PATH, e.g. if you installed into /usr/local % export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.3.1/bin:$PATH - Continue with the Java Plug-In instructions below * A .deb file containing packages comprising the Java 2 RE Installation: - Choose one of our mirrors - Become root % su - Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp:////debian non-free (replace with potato or woody) - The standard Debian package management tools (apt-get/dselect) now should be able to find and install Blackdown Java-Linux packages - The Debian packages automatically enable the Java Plug-In for Netscape/Mozilla if these have been installed from Debian packages. If you want to enable the Java Plug-In for manually installed versions of Netscape/Mozilla please read the Java Plug-In instructions below * A .rpm file containing packages comprising the Java 2 RE Installation: - Become root % su - Run the rpm command to install the packages % rpm -iv j2re-1.3.1-1..rpm (Replace with the architecture of your system, e.g. replace with i386 if your on an Intel system.) - Add /usr/lib/j2re1.3/bin to PATH % export PATH=/usr/lib/j2re1.3/bin:$PATH - Continue with the Java Plug-In instructions below Java Plug-In install instructions: ================================== Please remove older plug-in versions before installing the 1.3.1 plug-in. E.g. remove ~/.netscape/plugins/javaplugin.so and ~/.netscape/java/. * Netscape 4 Create a symbolic link from /jre/plugin//netscape4/javaplugin.so to one of the directories Netscape 4 searches for plug-ins. E.g. % ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/i386/netscape4/javaplugin.so \ ~/.netscape/plugins/ or % su # become root % ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/i386/netscape4/javaplugin.so \ /usr/lib/plugins/ Note: It has to be a symbolic link, copying javaplugin.so will NOT work * Mozilla / Netscape 6 Create a symbolic link from /jre/plugin//mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so to one of the directories Mozilla/Netscape 6 searches for plug-ins. E.g. % ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so \ ~/mozilla-0.9.1/plugins/ or % su # become root % ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.3.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so \ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ Note: It has to be a symbolic link, copying javaplugin.so will NOT work