Re: java in netscape? among other things...


Subject: Re: java in netscape? among other things...
From: steve steffler (generica@antisocial.com)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 07:10:44 MDT


Do I have to add this to a startup script or something, or is it a
one-time only thing?

Thanks a lot, BTW! I'll find out whether or not it works when I can get
to the console later today. :)

"Stuart R. Hall" wrote:
>
> Here's the fix for Linux Netscape to run Java. It's simple, it's goofy, but you can then enable Java and it works.
>
> As superuser or root, type:
>
> /usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
> (It is a single-line command; stupid Deja is formatting my text in too few columns for it to look right)
>
> Stuart
>
> ---
> Stuart Hall
> (sturob@swbell.net)
> (gasdocstu@yahoo.com)
> (gasdocstu@my-Deja.com)
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:23:40 steve steffler wrote:
> >
> >I recently installed YDL 1.1 from the ISO on the ftp site on a Powermac
> >6500/250, and almost everything is working fine. Things that aren't,
> >which I'm curious about:
> >
> >Appletalk - I'm part of a LAN (which I also maintain) of Macs and PCs,
> >running the Appletalk protocol. When I boot up, when it gets to the
> >section of the startup scripts which launch Appletalk, it says "too many
> >routes/iface". The LAN has four appletalk zones, seperated via three
> >hardware routers (Compatible Systems RISCrouter 4000s). . . between one
> >of the routers and the YDL machine are a couple of hubs, but that should
> >be no big deal... what gives?
> >
> >Also not working: Samba - however, I haven't attempted to poke around
> >inside of the configuration files for that one yet.
> >
> >The network connection on this machine is on eth0, and it's running
> >TCP/IP just fine... the atalkd.conf file is empty, and i've also tried
> >it with just 'eth0' in it and there is no difference in the result.
> >Anyhoo..
> >
> >Also: netscape, java - loading in any page that tells netscape to start
> >java causes netscape to flat out die. Perhaps a java problem? In any
> >case, is there a way to recompile Netscape somehow? I take it this is a
> >custom PPC version, because I can't find a PPC compile of Communicator
> >anywhere on Netscape.com...
> >
> >Couple of other questions.. is there an office suite or a full
> >featured, X word processor (anything like StarOffice or WordPerfect for
> >Linux) that will run on a PPC version of Linux? All of the
> >installations and binaries for WP and StarOffice (that I could find,
> >anyway) wouldn't run, giving the error "Unable to execute binary file" -
> >I take it this is because I'm not running linux on an x86 machine, as
> >these programs expect? Are there any alternatives as far as a goodly
> >featured office suite for X (or a way to get Staroffice et. al to run on
> >YDL)? I need something to impress my bosses enough to use Linux for more
> >applications throughout the school I'm working for. :)
> >
> >And... linuxconf tells me that the DNS isnt' responding to its requests,
> >and it's not - I'm running MacDNS on a 7350 Workgroup server behind the
> >same router this machine is connected to the LAN through. Doing DNS
> >lookups on the internet (through the proxy server, we use internal LAN
> >IPs for all the machines except the gateway to the internet) is working
> >fine through Netscape, and I can ping the DNS server as well, but
> >linuxconf is confused and is telling me that i could be looking at major
> >problems later on as a result of this. Should I be worried? I'm
> >considering just setting up a local, caching DNS server for all of this
> >anyway, using bind, so it may not be a big deal anyway, I'm just
> >curious. Thanks, and I hope you guys can help me out on a few of these
> >questions/problems (if not all!) :)
> >
> >PS: Excellent job on the distro as a whole, I love the way X comes, KDE
> >is beautiful..
> >
> >Steve
> >
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