Runtime Plug-in for Linux, JavaTM Edition

Versions

The Runtime-plugin for Linux is available on both glibc and libc5 platforms. The following configurations are absolutely neccessary:

glibc

• Steve Byrne's 1.1.5v5 glibc port of the jdk (jdk1.1.5v5-980311.tar.gz)
• libc-2.0.6.so
• libdl-2.0.6.so
• ld-2.0.6

libc5

• Steve Byrne's 1.1.5v6 libc5 port of the jdk (jdk1.1.5.tar.gz)
• libc.so.5.4.44 or greater
• libm.so.5.0.9 or greater
• libdl.so.1.8.5 or greater

Environment Variables

ACTIVATOR_TRACE

The variable ACTIVATOR_TRACE controls whether a verbose trace should be produced. If it is simply set, then the trace output will go to through standard Netscape stderr. If it is set to a non-empty value, the plugin will attempt to create a file $ACTIVATOR_TRACE and will store a copy of the diagnostics output there.

Installation

       chmod +x activator-linux-libc5
       ./activator-linux-libc5

By default, the plugin is installed in user's home directory. It is also possible to install a single shared copy of the Java Plug-in. You need to set up a shared directory "foo" to have both a plugins sub-directory and javaplugin sub-directory.

	foo/plugins
	foo/javaplugin

Start by doing a normal install of the plugin, and then move the files to the shared directory. Specifically, move the files from ~/.netscape/javaplugin to foo/javaplugin and from ~/.netscape/plugins/javaplugin.so to foo/plugins/javaplugin.so.

For each user using the shared install, make sure that they have foo/plugins on their Netscape NPX_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable when they run Netscape.

	NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/local/foo/plugins:/some/other/directory;
	export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH