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

That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to.

Thank you for your explanation of the EPEL policy.

On January 8, 2016 5:43:55 PM EST, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
wrote:
>On 1/8/2016 2:21 PM, H wrote:
>> That was not helpful - I explained that I had to run this version.
>
>you WANT to run something completely unsupported from about 10 years
>ago 
>which apparently requires software thats known to be insecure and buggy
>
>as all heck.       its 2015, not 2005, 10 years is an eternity in the 
>computer industry.
>
>whatever this 10 year old application is you're trying to get running, 
>it needs to be dragged into a present day state of support.   if this 
>requires reimplementing the clientside applet entirely, so be it.   Do 
>note, Java applets running in web browsers are an almost entirely 
>deprecated technology as there's been a non-stop stream of security 
>problems with the whole java applet concept and implementation.    
>J2SE 
>1.4, a version that was new in 2002, was desupported in 2008.
>
>re; EPEL, as I understand, EPEL drops old versions like a rock the 
>minute they are desupported.
>
>
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On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote:
> That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to.
It seems like RH 3.8 was around the time of Fedora Core 3-5 so 
you might be able to install packages from the Fedora archive:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/

Otherwise you could rebuild source packages from there with:

rpmbuild --rebuild ...


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Ian

Thank you. I was able to resolve the problem: apparently there was some
incompatibility between SeaMonkey Mozilla 1.0.9 and Java 1.4.1_09 caused by
different compiler versions.

I downloaded Mozilla 1.7.13 from the Mozilla website and Java 1.4.2_19 from
Oracle's archive and was able to get it to work. The Java applet (LSI
eArrayDirector) now runs and I will use it to configure the fibre channel array
tomorrow.

On January 9, 2016 6:00:14 PM EST, Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer at uq.edu.au>
wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote:
>
>> That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to.
>
>It seems like RH 3.8 was around the time of Fedora Core 3-5 so 
>you might be able to install packages from the Fedora archive:
>
>http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/
>
>Otherwise you could rebuild source packages from there with:
>
>rpmbuild --rebuild ...
>
>
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> On Sun, 10 Jan 2016, H wrote:
> 
>> That is correct, not only do I want to, I need to.

just curious, what is the specification of this requirement (need)??

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