On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:22 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > Gerhard Magnus wrote: > ||| If you are using Firefox, you would want to put the link in > ||| the "firefox/plugins" directory... not mozilla's plugin > ||| directory. > | > | OK, makes sense. The closest I could find to "firefox/plugins" > | was the directory /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1. I created a > | subdirectory "plugins" and put the link > | to /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > | there. I still keep getting these perplexing firefox messages > | (now from several webpages.) > | > > You got close. Look again and see if you see > /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins > That's where you have to put the link... I just went through this. Maybe this will all seem simple eventually but for now it's like trying to thread a needle in very dim light. The "Jpackages" webpage is a little too advanced for me at this point. (1) I had assumed packages keep their names after they're installed, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Why does j2re-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.rpm turn into 2re-1.4.2_06-fcs and jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.rpm become jre-1.5.0-fcs? When I run "rpm -Uvh" on either of the origin rpm's I'm told that the corresponding "fcs" files are already installed. (2) I now have two java directories under /usr/java: j2re1.4.2_06 and jre1.5.0. Can someone just tell me which one works with Firefox 1.0? Does either? I believe all I need is the runtime environment for the web application I have in mind, but the Firefox "plugins" section (under preferences-download) still doesn't show any java installed. (3) I need to put a link in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins -- but which one? Under the /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/plugin directory I have ns4, ns610, and ns610-gcc32. Under /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin there's ns7 and ns7_g to choose from.
