Subject: Re: sun-jdk15 java plugin doesn't work in Firefox
To: Huub <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>
From: Shigeki UNO <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/28/2007 03:10:25
Oops, Quotation is messed up. :( Gmail is in some cases not rocks.

2007/2/28, Shigeki UNO <shigeki@mediawars.ne.jp>:
> 2007/2/25, Huub <huubvanniekerk@gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Running NBSD 3.1/i386, after building the lang/sun-jdk15 port,
> >I created a softlink to libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/pkg/lib/>firefox/plugins.
> > However, about:plugins doesn't show it in Firefox, and a >testsite told me to download and install a java-plugin. Am I >doing something wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Huub
>
> Firefox you have already installed is for native, and java(lang/sun-*)
> is for linux. Therefore you need to install
> firefox-linux(pkgsrc/www/firefox2-bin) to get java's plugin work.
>
> Or There are 2 other ways left that are to install java for NetBSD or
> to install "nspluginwrapper". You can read about them
> on NetBSD mailing lists archives.
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/02/07/0008.html
> http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper
>
> HTH,
>
> ---
> Shigeki UNO
>