On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:43 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote: > On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:12:49 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > ---- > > Ok first thing first and do an rpm -e and remove the java instance you > installed because well it does not work. > > Then do this: > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java > > Add dag's repostiory to your yum.conf but do NOT enable it by default. > > yum --enablerepo=dag install j2re mozilla-j2re > > That is that. ---- call me nuts but if there was one repo to have enabled by default, it would be dag's - but that's me I guess. YMMV Craig
