CentOS - Jan 2016 - Centos 3.8 Server Questions, SeaMonkey Mozilla and Java

In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet I had to
install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After installation I upgraded the
installation using yum after repointing the configuration file to
vault.centos.org. This worked fine, however, I still have to resolve two
problems:
- I'd would like to make the EPEL repository available but have not been
able to find if old EPEL software packages are stored somewhere else for
non-supported versions of CentOS?
- I am trying to get Java 1.4.1 running in SeaMonkey Mozilla 5.0, the latest
version I have been able to find for Centos 3.8, but have not had success to
date. My current understanding is that I need to create a symbolic link to a
Java .so file in the Mozilla plugin directory but must be doing something wrong
since I cannot get Java to show up as a plugin using about:plugins in SeaMonkey
Mozilla.

Is anyone able to offer suggestions?

Thank you.

H

On 09/01/16 10:08, H wrote:
> In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet I had
to install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After installation I upgraded the
installation using yum after repointing the configuration file to
vault.centos.org. This worked fine, however, I still have to resolve two
problems:
> - I'd would like to make the EPEL repository available but have not
been able to find if old EPEL software packages are stored somewhere else for
non-supported versions of CentOS?
> - I am trying to get Java 1.4.1 running in SeaMonkey Mozilla 5.0, the
latest version I have been able to find for Centos 3.8, but have not had success
to date. My current understanding is that I need to create a symbolic link to a
Java .so file in the Mozilla plugin directory but must be doing something wrong
since I cannot get Java to show up as a plugin using about:plugins in SeaMonkey
Mozilla.
> 
> Is anyone able to offer suggestions?
There is a JVM available that runs just fine on all new supported
versions of CentOS (5.11, 6.7 and 7.2) and EPEL as well.  My suggestion
is you install and run something that is supported and not full of major
security holes.

If you choose to run something years out of date such as CentOS 3,
regardless of the reason, you are quite on your own, it is already
broken and you get to keep the pieces.


Peter

That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version.

On January 8, 2016 5:18:36 PM EST, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org>
wrote:
>On 09/01/16 10:08, H wrote:
>> In order to run a certain software package that runs as a java applet
>I had to install Centos 3.8 on a 32-bit server. After installation I
>upgraded the installation using yum after repointing the configuration
>file to vault.centos.org. This worked fine, however, I still have to
>resolve two problems:
>> - I'd would like to make the EPEL repository available but have not
>been able to find if old EPEL software packages are stored somewhere
>else for non-supported versions of CentOS?
>> - I am trying to get Java 1.4.1 running in SeaMonkey Mozilla 5.0, the
>latest version I have been able to find for Centos 3.8, but have not
>had success to date. My current understanding is that I need to create
>a symbolic link to a Java .so file in the Mozilla plugin directory but
>must be doing something wrong since I cannot get Java to show up as a
>plugin using about:plugins in SeaMonkey Mozilla.
>> 
>> Is anyone able to offer suggestions?
>
>There is a JVM available that runs just fine on all new supported
>versions of CentOS (5.11, 6.7 and 7.2) and EPEL as well.  My suggestion
>is you install and run something that is supported and not full of
>major
>security holes.
>
>If you choose to run something years out of date such as CentOS 3,
>regardless of the reason, you are quite on your own, it is already
>broken and you get to keep the pieces.
>
>
>Peter
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