On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 05:08 +0000, Richard Hubbell wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:00:39 -0800, Gerhard Magnus > <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once I installed the new firefox 1.0.1 I lost the java runtime > > environment I had finally been able to get working with firefox 1.0. > This isn't a fedora question but a firefox question. > But there are so many lists. I have subscribed to more than I know. > It seems nowadays one has to subscribe to a separate list for every package > available. ...I digress... > First, thanks for helping me fix this. Similar problems must come up frequently in this gray area between open-source linux and software that's merely free to download. Here we have a common application (the java runtime environment) that apparently installs and functions transparently-to-the-user with web browsers running under Windows. But to get it working with the default browser for Fedora (firefox) requires this song & dance involving information that's practically buried on the Sun/Java and Mozilla/Firefox websites. Even going through this installation a second time (after the latest firefox upgrade) I was getting nowhere without help. What is the relationship between Fedora/linux and Sun/java and why does it seem to be so unfriendly? Why does installing this plugin have to be done with symbolic links in the first place? > Did you do this? > > cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/ > ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . > > To make sure you created the link properly try this: > ls -Ll /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so > ls -Ll /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > (they better be the same size (^: ) > Make sure java is enabled under preferences|options. > then /usr/bin/firefox > try it out > > http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/webmol.pl > I'm not sure why what I was doing kept creating a bad link but I'll play around with it (yes, using some file other than libjavaplugin.oji!) until this is more clear.
