Java

[yawningdog]

I like to play chess at instantchess.com, but you have to use a java vm to do it. Here's how I did it.

Went to blackdown.org and downloaded j2re-1.3.1-FCS-linux-i386.tar.bz2.
into home and unzipped it there. Then opened konqueror (my browser of choice) and went to settings-configure konqueror-konqueror browser and click the Java tab. Enabled Java locally, and path to Java executable for me is
/home/yawningdog/j2re1.3.1/bin/java

Hope this helps someone in the future. Maybe me.

[vbp6us]

Thats all you dl from blackdown and you get the latest java?

[rustskull]

it's the same process for sun's or ibm's versions. blackdown is usually a rev back, ibm's been getting better. the new java 1.4 is so much better than 1.3, performance and look-wise, it's unbelieveable. Java is really starting to mature and be very good.

I had to go install an older library that debian doesn't install by default, but it's a distro specific thing on what the default installs are.

If you want all the plugin stuff to work in every browser for all users, you need to get on as root and either put the plugins physically in the mozilla/plugins directory, or symlink to them there, as per the instructions for whichever plugin you're installing.

Then galeon, mozilla, and konq ought to see them, no matter who's logged in or what they're using. I think there might also be a hardcode path in galeon that wants to see a rev like mozilla-[revision number]/plugins, but mine seemed to work without me having to do this.

I have flash, java, and the plugger one installed and I haven't needed to install anything else yet. We'll see once I have a minute to hit more streaming media sites.

-rust