basic java question - and flash player

[John Nelson]

On a related note... what is the "best" Java enabled browser for YDL?  I 
like Mozilla on Redhat/i386 and Windows, but not sure if its good (or even 
availabel for YDL).

Opinions?

-- John


On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, david wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:43:06 -0400
> From: david <david@davidwrightmusic.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: basic java question - and flash player
> 
> YDLers,
> 
> By default both browsers, Konqueror (kde) and Mozilla (gnome) are configured 
> to support java enabled websites [settings -> configure konqueror -> File 
> associations -> x-java] but neither do. (java interperter disabled - > error 
> message)  How do i enable the java interpreter? 
> 
> Also i tried to download (and sucessfully installed, i thought) a flash 
> player recently from the macromedia site and this is what happens when i try 
> to run Mozilla now:
> 
> [davidwri@RR davidwri]$ mozilla &
> [1] 2571
> [davidwri@RR davidwri]$ LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so 
> [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: ELF file data encoding not 
> big-endian]
> LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class 
> [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: invalid ELF header]
> 
> It will run but will not, obviously load the plugins, are they only supposed 
> be plugins for Netscape? that was the suggested browser, i though netscape 
> was "based" on Mozilla.
> 
> Also on a Java elated note, i would like to start learning java what would 
> someone recommend? Is it as "simple" as installing the IBM Java package (The 
> IBM Developer Kit for Linux) from the "bonus" cd's that comes with the 
> standard YDL distro? 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux130/.  
> 
> Thanks for all your help.
> 
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