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-<ARCH>.tar.bz2
          (Replace <ARCH> with the architecture of your system, e.g. 
          replace <ARCH> 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://<mirror>/<path-to-java-directory>/debian <dist> non-free
          (replace <dist> 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.<ARCH>.rpm
          (Replace <ARCH> with the architecture of your system, e.g. 
          replace <ARCH> 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:
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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 
  <Java2 SDK installation>/jre/plugin/<ARCH>/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 
  <Java2 SDK installation>/jre/plugin/<ARCH>/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