[clug-talk] having trouble...

[Robert Lewko]

On May 18, 2005 10:19 pm, Patrick Shannon wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know a system administrator at Bishop
> Grandin by the Name of Mrs.Hughes? She says she is
> friends  one of the more knowledgeable members of
> CLUG.Anyway, the two of us are going in halfseys on a
> new Debian distro, so I'll be ditching this ancient
> Redhat OS pretty soon anyway.

I believe that I am the person she is referring to.  Is her name Leigh-Ann?  
If you are purchasing one of the debian derivatives then I have actually been 
contemplating buying Libranet.

> I am having trouble, however, with installing a java
> plugin. I load the rpm.bin file on the terminal and it
> installs, and then in my nautilus folder, I find a
> nice rpm file.But when I click it, it tells me that
> "jre" is already installed.The problem is, I can't use
> java, and when I plug "jre" into the bash prompt, it
> tells me the command doesn't exist.
>
First the java plugin is a *.so file.  It is not an executable that you can 
run from the command line.  I am using a Sun JDK that I got from the 
www.java.com.  My java plugin is called "javaplugin_oji.so".  Plugins are 
kept in the directory "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins".  If you are using mozilla 
then look in the menu Help>About Mozilla.  If you are using Firefox then look 
in the menu Edit>Preferences>Downloads>Plugins.  These will tell you what 
plugins are active.

If you have a file like I mentioned above then either copy the plugin to 
"/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" or make a link from the file to that directory and 
restart your browser.  Konqueror will use the same directory.

I have assumed that you are using mozilla as your browser and or KDE.  If you 
are perverse enough that you use Gnome then I am not the person to ask about 
their browsers.