Well there are two ways to do it. The easiest way is to:

emerge mozilla


and then make the symlink from /opt/blackdown-jre-1.3.1/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so to /usr/local/mozilla/plugins. It should then work. However if you want to have the latest mozilla build then do...


emerge -o mozilla


and download the nightly build from the Mozilla website. Then make the symlink. The emerge -o mozilla will download all the dependencies needed including Java, to run Mozilla. Finally inject mozilla into your portage tree so that portage knows you installed it.


emerge -i net-www/mozilla-1.0.1-r3


and you should be all set.

This will not work in Gentoo 1.4-RC1

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by Techie2000
last modified: 2002-12-03 18:27:45