> > Hi All, > > Does the new FC4 Firefox automatically handle > downloading Flash and Java > plugins ? If not, what is the simplest way to do > this - I have watched > a lot of stuff go by about Java in the last few > days, but assumed this > was for stand-alone Java applications rather than in > the browser - is > that correct ? > > Jonathan By default FC4 does not ship with Java or Flash plugins. To install: * Download the java plugin JRE 1.5 Update 3 from sun from : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp. Download the Linux self extracting file (ends with .bin). Do not download the .rpm package! Read the Fedora Core 4 release notes if you want to know why. * Run #chmod +x jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin and then #./jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin to install the plugin. * Move the package to /opt/ directory by running #mv jre1.5.0_03 /opt/ * Next make a symbolic link for firefox to recognize the plugin. #ln -s /opt/jre1.5.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so More details at: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux * To install the flash plugin, just visit any page with flash content on it. Firefox shows a message on top of the page saying that some plugins are required for the page. Click on the link and install flash. From: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/install_linux.html Enjoy! ~Shan *** Shantanu Shah theashworld@xxxxxxxxx
