[sclug] Java with Mozilla

[Andy Arbon]

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Well, if it was a gentoo system it would be a case of 'emerge sun-jdk
mozilla', and (after the compilation completes, granted) everything
would work...

I don't mean this to be as unhelpful as it sounds.. I've noticed that
Gentoo seems rather under-represented in SCLUG, so I thought I should
point out that in some situations Gentoo is actually easier to get
working than any of the binary distros.

Incompatibility between library versions is essentially impossible on a
Gentoo system as all the parts of the system are built against each
other. It's also the only system I know of where (for the same reason)
you can reliably mix parts of the stable and testing branches together
without risking the stability of the entire system - Using an unstable
version of mplayer doesn't involve upgrading all of the things that
mplayer depends on, for example, it will happily build against the
versions you have installed.

This message was brought to you by the local Gentoo Fanboys
association.. Now back to our regular programming.... ;)


Cheers,

Andy

Roland Turner wrote:
| Neil wrote:
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|>Can anyone tell me how to get Mozilla 1.5 to run java? I'm stumped.
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