mozilla-snapshot/sid/java

[littleman]

Quick note, looks like there is a break in the Debian java plugin for Mozilla-Snapshot. Apparently the j2re1.4j2sdk1.4 packages are built with gcc-2.95.4 and are incompatible with current Sid Mozilla and Phoenix packages.

The j2re and j2sdk built with gcc3.2 are available directly blackdown.org. I installed j2re and symbolically linked it to the respective plugin directories -- worked fine for me.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.4.1/i386/01/

[Duckula]

This is spanish, and since I don't get Mozilla from Debian (I compile my own) I haven't tested this. But well, here it is:

Hacer funcionar el Plugin de Java para Mozilla 1.3 en SID [bulmalug.net]

Wanton translation:

Here we go:
Download:
$ wget [mirror.ac.uk...]
We go to the location where these things are usually installed in Debian (/usr/lib)
$ cd /usr/lib
We adjudicate execution permits to the file
$ chmod +rx /path/where/downloaded/j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin
Then we have the runtime-environment , only missing symlinking
Update system alternatives, Debian way
$ ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/bin/java /etc/alternatives/
$ ln -s /etc/alternatives/java /usr/bin/
$ ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.4.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so /etc/alternatives/
And finally we put the plugin link on the mozilla directory:
$ ln -s /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

The same page says it's already solved somewhere else, but I don't know.