Study Notes

The BS3000/3000e WebGUI requires Java support, while the default Mozilla firefox on my Mandriva2K7 does not implement this plug-in. I fix this issue with the following steps.

1. Download the Java(TM) 2 RE(j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin)
# wget ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/JDK-1.4.2/i386/03/j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin

2. Change to the directory “/usr/local”
# cp j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin /usr/local
# cd /usr/local
# chmod 777 j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin

3. Extract the contents of the Java 2 SDK by running the shell script
# ./j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin

4. Add j2re1.4.2/bin to PATH,
# export PATH=/usr/local/j2re1.4.2/bin:$PATH

5. Implement the Java Plug-In to Firefox:
#ln -s /usr/local/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7/plugins/

Note: It has to be a symbolic link, copying libjavaplugin_oji.so will NOT work. OK, the firefox is able to support Java GUI now.