On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:32 -0600, shashank bhide wrote: > Hi, > I seem to have the same problem, I installed firefox and did > exactly as told in this faq > (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#plugins). However, > firefox refused to open up after I had created a sym link under the > Firefox plugin directory. > FC3 comes with preinstalled Firefox, that too would not startup if I > were to create a sym link for the java plugin under its (Firefox's) > plugin directory. > Odd. I just checked my installation of Firefox. I used a different version before the RPM came out. I have since moved to the Fedora Core RPM. In my /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins directory, I have a soft link (ln -s) to the Java plugin library in: /usr/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/java is actually a link on my system to /usr/j2sdk1.4.2_06. I've installed Java by hand obtained from Sun at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html I used the binary package and not the RPM. That way I can gradually migrate to jdk1.5.0 as I clean up code. I've also done the following: 1. Moved the GNU Java compiler out of my path 2. Added /usr/java/bin to the PATH in /etc/profile (works for all users) 3. Added JAVA_HOME=/usr/java in /etc/profile (works for all users) I now have j2sdk1.4.2_06 available for all accounts. For testing jdk1.5, I change my path (remove /usr/java/bin and add /usr/jdk1.5/bin), and set my JAVA_HOME environment variable to /usr/jdk1.5. I haven't tried the 1.5 plugin with Firefox yet. That's on a long list of things to do. ----- /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
