Perhaps some other newbie running Fedora 3 can benefit from this summary: I've been trying to get the Java runtime environment to work with Firefox 1.0. This is the version that comes with Fedora 3 -- it's from the package firefox-1.0-2.fc3 and its files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0. After much fiddling with this, I ended up two versions of the Java runtime environment installed in directories /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 and /usr/java/jrel.5.0. I wanted to use the latter, more recent version 5.0 with Firefox. I went to the directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7 where I found only the file libjavaplugin_oji.so. Then, as superuser, I created a link in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0 directory: ln -sf libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Executing ls, the link libjavaplugin_oji.so should appear in blue -- if it appears in red and flashes this means the link has not been established successfully. Firefox doesn't telegraph the news that its java plugin has been successfully installed. A good place to go to test this is http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp -- if you can see the dancing Duke logoâ image animated in the applet, then the JRE is functioning correctly. The main thing I've learned from all this is that unix will be merciless when a user confuses the letter "l" and the number "1". Thanks for everybody's help -- and happy new year! Jerry
