NOTE: Before starting this how to, please read the follow up
posts by other users, especially the one by Bluedogruns
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I've just installed the current Java Runtime Environment (1.6.0.02) into Puppy 2.17.1 (with WhoDo's EZPup 2.1.7R2) directly from Sun, no dotpup involved. Here's the procedure. I composed this so a French-speaker can translate it using Babelfish:
1. Open Seamonkey. Surf you to
http://www.sun.com/
2. In the lower right, press "Java for games, apps, and a whole lot more."
3. Press you the green "Free Java Download" button.
4. Press you the green down-arrow "Linux (self-extracting file)" button.
5. A dialog box opens, "Opening jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin".
6. Be sure that "Save it to disk" is highlighted.
7. Click you the "OK" button.
8. Click you the "Browse for other folders" line.
9. In the left window, double-click "File System".
10. Grab the "Enter name of file to save to..." window's title bar and move the window to the center of your screen.
11. In the right window, scroll down to "usr" and doubleclick.
12. Scroll down and doubleclick "local".
13. Scroll down and doubleclick "bin".
14. Click you the "Save" button.
15. Wait you for the 18+MB download to conclude. You will see the download's progress in the "Download Manager" window, which you can see by pressing the tiny green down-arrow on the taskbar.
16. Open you Puppy's lower-left Menu (Start) button, Filesystem - Rox-Filer file manager.
17. Press you the up arrow at top left of the Rox window. This places you in / .
18. Click you the "usr" icon.
19. Click you the "local" icon.
20. Click you the "bin" icon.
21. Right-click the icon for jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin (which you have just downloaded).
22. Highlight "File 'jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin'" and roll you the mouse to the right and roll to "Properties" .
23. Left-click "Properties" .
24. Click you the checkbox "Exec" (=make executeable) in the "Owner" row.
25. Click the Close button.
26. Right-click in the whitespace of the /usr/local/bin Rox window.
27. Roll down to "Window" and slide the mouse right and to "Terminal here" .
28. Left-click "Terminal here" .
29. At the # prompt, issue the command
./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
30. You see the license. Repeatedly, but slowly, press the "Page Down" key until you see the word "More" no longer.
31. Now you see "Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]"
32. Press y {enter} .
33. Now Java unpacks. In a minute you see "Done."
34. Menu - Filesystem - Rox-Filer
35. Up-arrow usr lib mozilla plugins
36. Right-click in whitespace in this Rox window, Window-->Terminal here .
37. Create you a symbolic link: issue you this command:
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ln -s /usr/local/bin/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so
Edit - Preferences - Advanced (click on the word "Advanced") - click the "Enable Java" button.
39. Click you in Seamonkey
Edit - Preferences - Advanced (click on the + sign) - Scripts and Plugins
40. Be sure that "Enable JavaScript for Navigator" is checked.
41. Edit - Preferences - Advanced (on the + sign) - Cache - Clear Cache
42. Close Seamonkey and restart it.
42. Now surf to
www.sun.com
43. At the lower right, click "Java for games, apps, and a whole lot more"
44. Click the tiny "Do I have Java?" phrase.
In a few seconds, you should see "Congratulations!"
Now you have Java.
You can get rid of the installer
/usr/local/bin/jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
(either delete it or move it off to another drive)
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by Sit Heel Speak