On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 17:37 +0000, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > An application I need to run at a website requires that my browser > (Mozilla firefox) have the Java Runtime Environment (J2SE50). The Sun > website offers these options: > > ***** > > Linux Self-extracting File > This file can be used to install the Java platform in a location chosen > by the user. This file can be installed by anyone (not only root users), > and it can be installed in any location. It will not displace the system > version of the Java platform supplied by the Linux operating environment > (unless you intentionally install it in the same location as the > system's Java platform, which requires you to be root user). > > Linux RPM in Self-extracting File > A Linux RPM package file to be installed with the rpm utility. The RPM > packages require root access to install, and they install by default in > a location such that they replace the system version of the Java > platform supplied by the Linux operating environment. > > ***** > > Which of these installations is recommended so that (1) Firefox can find > the Java plugin and (2) I don't damage any system version of Java that > may already be included in Fedora 3? > It doesn't matter which you choose, but I would go for rpm. To make the plugin work for all mozilla-using apps (including Firefox and Epiphany) link to the gcc32 version of the plugin from /usr/lib/mozilla.
