[PlanetCCRMA] Java question

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:18:25 +1100, Shayne O'Connor
<forums@machinehasnoagenda.com> wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>   On a Morningstar page I get a message
> >>
> >>"This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that
> >>can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in."
> >>
> >>What do people install on a FC2/Planet system to get past this? If you
> >>can please do an "rpm -qa | grep whatever" so I can hopefully find it
> >>more easily.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Dag's repository has java packages for mozilla, see:
> >
> >  http://dag.wieers.com/packages/j2re/
> >
> >That will require the j2re packages that he also hosts. You can download
> >directly from the above page or add the proper apt urls and download
> >them through apt or synaptic (but I would disable the dag urls after you
> >explicitly install what you need).
> >
> >-- Fernando
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> also, check out this page:
> 
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMozillaConfiguration.html
> 
> this gives instructions on how to install the j2re packages from Sun,
> and also, how to enable java plugin within mozilla/firefox ... for
> *ages* i thought i wasn't able to use my internet banking on
> linux/firefox, but then i found that page, which shows how to enable
> java plugin (plus all other plugins like realplayer, flash etc) and
> register protocols ... very informative.
> 
> shayne

Hey, thanks for the link Shayne. It's bookmarked, but damn that's a
scary page. I guess I really need to be an IT guru to use Java on
Linux after a quick scan of that. Heck, c programming, all sorts of
configuration stuff. Wow...

- Mark