Mozilla & java

[peter]

Joe wrote:
> I just got the current jre for Linux from Sun
> 
> j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.rpm
> 
> 
> and installed it.  I then symlinked:
> 
> libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so*
> 
> in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.5/plugins
> 
> After I did this, when I start mozilla, the hourglass spins for a while 
> and then mozilla goes away.  As soon as I get rid of the symlink, 
> mozilla works again.
> 
> Any ideas what's wrong or how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
  I had the same thing happen and "fixed" it but my approach was 
probably kinda brutal, not elegant.

Its a permissions/ownership problem, I think. I did:

chown -R pete: /usr/java

and chgrp -R pete /usr/java

An alternative would be to setup a ~/usr dir in your account and install 
the java to there. Does anyone know another way?
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