[K12OSN] java issue

[Access Systems]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, anthony baldwin wrote:

yes please post the answer, I have pretty much thrown up my hands on this
same issue, it downloads nicely but won't work, my Mozilla doesn't crash
per se but it just sort of hangs up...if I kill the process I'm back in
business but it still doesn't work.

Bob


> I have Sun's j2re1.4.2_04 installed and libjavaplugin_oji.so symlinked
> in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (per sintructions here:
> http://www.redhatconfig.com/msg/69152.html), but I can't load java
> applets online and everytime I try to load the Intl. Scarbble Club's
> (http://www.isc.ro) java interface, Mozilla crashes.
> I met a nice lady online and we want to play Scrabble online.
>
> I tried to install Dag's j2re and moz-j2re (from here:
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/j2re/) and kept receiving bad sig/key msg
> and failed deps msg on the moz pkg (needed the other dag rpm,
> appreantly, which wouldn't install.)  This per instructions here:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java
>
> Here are results of attempting to install dag rpms:
>
> [root at localhost progs]# rpm -ivh mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag.i586.rpm
> warning: mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
> error: Failed dependencies:
> j2re = 1.4.2 is needed by mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag
> [root at localhost progs]# cd java
> [root at localhost java]# ls
> j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.rpm j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> [root at localhost java]# rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_2_04-linux-i586.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> package j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs is already installed
> [root at localhost java]# cd ../
> [root at localhost progs]# rpm -ivh mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag.i586.rpm
> warning: mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
> error: Failed dependencies:
> j2re = 1.4.2 is needed by mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-9.1.fc1.dag
> [root at localhost progs]#
>
> tried rpm -UVH
>
> [root at localhost progs]# rpm -Uvh j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm
> warning: j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key
> ID 6b8d79e6
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> package j2re-1.4.2_04-fcs (which is newer than j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag)
> is already installed
> file /usr/bin/java from install of j2re-1.4.2-8.1.fc2.dag conflicts with
> file from package jdkgcj-0.2.3-5
>
> Personally, can't figure why Sun's j2re with symlink in
> usr/lib/moz/plugins isn't working in the first place.
> I'm a bit lost now.
>
>
> Please assist.
> Thanks,
>
> tony
>
>

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