On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:33 -0800, Jared Buck wrote: > Hey all, I am having problems installing Java in Linux. I have > downloaded the Binary RPM, made it executable, then executed it to > extract the RPM. > > I ran the RPM and it installed just fine. But I use Firefox, obviously, > so I need some way to get it to recognize the java plugin. I followed > the instructions under configuration on the Java configuration website > and did the ln command as instructed. Java isn't recognized. > > I configured it as it instructed, to configure it under mozilla 1.7.3. > Am I doing something wrong here, like configuring it for 1.73 when it > should be configured under firefox's plugins directory? > > Help would be appreciated here. ---- <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/install-linux.html> # locate plugins|grep firefox /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins <trimmed some> # rpm -qa|grep j2re j2re-1.4.2-11.1.fc3.rf mozilla-j2re-1.4.2-11.1.fc3.rf # rpm -ql j2re|grep libjavaplugin /usr/lib/jre/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_jni.so # ln -s /usr/lib/jre/plugin/i386/ns610- gcc32/ /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/ I think I also created this file... # cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh JREHOME="/usr/lib/jre/lib/i386" JAVAWSHOME="/usr/lib/jre/javaws" #LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JREHOME:$JAVAWSHOME" PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/jre/bin" Craig
