Very Computer

Okay I seen the number of people that have been having problems just
like myself with  Netscape V3.0 and Java applets.   So I thought I would do
a little experimenting to see if I could get it to work and was quite
surprised when I did.  This is what I found on my installation.  I
apologize if this is old news.

Just rename /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_30 to
                /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_30.zip !!!!        
                                                        ^^^

Here is my setup:  Linux Joshua 2.0.7 Netscape V3.0b6

ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape

        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.0
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0
        libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.3
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0
        libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18

gzip -dc netscape-v30b6-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz|tar tvf -

-r--r--r-- briano/wheel  10279 Aug  1 15:30 1996 README
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel   7306 Aug  1 15:30 1996 LICENSE
-r-xr-xr-x briano/wheel 4904680 Aug  1 15:31 1996 netscape
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel  219491 Aug  1 15:28 1996 Netscape.ad
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel    4674 Oct 18 16:54 1994 XKeysymDB
-r-xr-xr-x briano/wheel    5464 Aug  1 15:21 1996 movemail
drwxr-xr-x briano/wheel       0 Aug  1 15:30 1996 movemail-src/
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel   18415 Dec 14 14:50 1995 movemail-src/movemail.c
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel   17976 Dec 14 14:50 1995 movemail-src/COPYING
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel     919 Dec 14 14:50 1995 movemail-src/README
-r--r--r-- briano/wheel  723019 Aug  1 15:30 1996 java_30    

so it seems it's a bug in the distibution archive.

What gave it away was when I tried to run netscape from a shell(I usually
run it from a toolbar) I got the following error:

Joshua:/lib# netscape &
[1] 3038
Joshua:/lib# Netscape: Ignoring invalid mailcap entry: -r
netscape: '/root/.netscape/plugins/java_30' is not an ELF file
ERROR: Not an ELF file
Cant load plugin /root/.netscape/plugins/java_30. Ignored.

Of course java_30 is a zip archive.
Here I was running as root to eliminate possible permission problems.
Exact same error occurs at /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins.
My perms are
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       723019 Aug 19 09:41 java_30.zip

Let me know if this works for you, I am just explaining what worked for me.

Cheers

Tony

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Quote:> Notice it doesn't say "/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins". The "plugins"
> directory is for plugins, not for java stuff.

> (b) Renaming to .zip is silly: netscape already recognizes java_30 as a zip
> file, and manages to read the contents (I've verified this using "strace").

netscape: '/root/.netscape/plugins/java_30' is not an ELF file

as it was looking for plugins and not for the java_30 file.

Quote:

> You need to put the java_30 (not .zip) file in /usr/local/lib/netscape, or
> one of the other locations above.

> The problem that most people are running into (those who can't run java
> applets) is that some unknown java exception is occurring early in the
> process when applets are loaded, and nothing ever pops up

Maybe I did changed something else while I was fiddling that caused it to
work, not sure what it could have been.  But my current setup works so I
am happy to leave it that way.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       723019 Aug 19 09:41
/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_30.zip*

Like I said in the original post, just explaining what worked for me.

Cheers

Tony

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: >
: > > Just rename /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_30 to
: > >             /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins/java_30.zip !!!!        
: > >                                                     ^^^

This worked for me! I have java_30 in "/usr/local/lib/netscape".
I just created a pair of symbolic links (to play it safe).

Within /usr/local/lib/netscape, I did:
        "ln -s java_30 java_30.zip"

Within /usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins, I did:
        "ln -s ../java_30 java_30.zip"

: I did read the README file, several times in fact, and tried copying
: java_30 to each of the directories in turn to see if it would work.  I
: even tried having links from these directories to the one java_30 file,
: and when that didn't work I had multiple java_30 files in ALL of these
: directories, with still no luck.

Well, my luck has changed for the better.

: > Notice it doesn't say "/usr/local/lib/netscape/plugins". The "plugins"
: > directory is for plugins, not for java stuff.
: >
: > (b) Renaming to .zip is silly: netscape already recognizes java_30 as a zip
: > file, and manages to read the contents (I've verified this using "strace").

: Like I said in the original post, just explaining what worked for me.

Thanks. Java is now working for me too.

Cheers,
Edward