On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:08 am, irb wrote:
> You might find it easier to just do it the Slackware Way[tm] and
> reinstall the mozilla-plugins package. You can get that here:
>
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/slackware/xap/
Thanks, irb. The problem isn't just with Mozilla, but with Konqueror, too, and
Konqueror is the browser I use most.
>
> However, I'm not sure why you think this is a problem with Java; I'd
> first suspect javascript, which is a different beast entirely. Make sure
> you have Javascript enabled would be my first piece of advice.
>
I have enabled Javascript in all the browsers. I don't necessarily think this
is a problem with Java. I just asked if it "could" be a problem with Java.
Java, Javascript... it's all Greek (or Geek?) to me. Like I said, I'm really
ignorant.
Siri Amrit
> * Quoth Siri Amrit Kaur (tigerflag@tigerflag.com), on Tue, 2004.09.14, at
10:44 -0700:
> > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:16 am, Craig White wrote:
> >
> > I'm very ignorant. I don't know what you mean by exporting to my path.
> > And I don't have " /usr/kerberos/ " in my system, so if I type what you
> > said will it mess things up?
>
> You might find it easier to just do it the Slackware Way[tm] and
> reinstall the mozilla-plugins package. You can get that here:
>
> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.0/slackware/xap/
>
> However, I'm not sure why you think this is a problem with Java; I'd
> first suspect javascript, which is a different beast entirely. Make sure
> you have Javascript enabled would be my first piece of advice.
>
> /i.
>
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Siri Amrit
> >
> > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:53, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > > > I was trying to create an account at a website. The page had a little
> > > > box of text and numbers that I'm supposed to type into the form to
> > > > insure I'm a real person and not some kind of bot. The problem is, I
> > > > can't see any text and numbers in it. I tried Konqueror, Opera,
> > > > Galeon and Mozilla. None of them display the contents of that little
> > > > box.
> > > >
> > > > In addition, none of the images in Slashdot show up, either. I made
> > > > sure they weren't blocked in my /etc/hosts file and have cookies
> > > > enabled, but other than that, I don't know what to do. I checked
> > > > /var/log/packages and it shows I have Java installed. Is this a Java
> > > > problem? BTW, I'm running SLackware 10. This wasn't a problem in 9.1.
> > >
> > > ----
> > > are you sure the java plug-in is installed/enabled?
> > >
> > > In Mozilla, try Help -> about plug-ins
> > >
> > > see if java plug-in is installed. If not, you have to quit mozilla.
> > > then locate the plug-ins folder for mozilla
> > > on FC-2, it is in /usr/lib/mozilla
> > > and then locate the proper java plug-in shared object
> > > on FC-2, it is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/
> > >
> > > and thus to link it...
> > >
> > > ln -s \
> > > /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so \
> > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin
> > >
> > > and lastly, as whatever user you are running as...you must have java
> > > exported in your path...
> > > # echo $PATH
> > > /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sb
> > >in:/
> > > bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_04/bin:/root/
> > >bin
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
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