On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:32 +0200, Uno Engborg wrote: > Neal Wilkinson wrote: > > >I installed Java (jre1.5.0_04) and then went to > >the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8/plugins directory and did a ln > >-s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > >and the link was created. When I try and run a Java app though it says > >the plugin is not installed. Java is enabled in the browser as well. > > > > > > > Strange, that should work. > > Does it help to set environment variables like > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/ > or > JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/ > > is it the right java that is in your PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH or > /etc/ld.so.conf > file > > Regards > Uno Engborgs > Another possibility - did you perhaps put a space after "ns7"? The instructions on the sun site put a line break at this point, so it is easy to misread. I did, and got a link called libjavaplugin_oji.so in the root directory, pointing at the ns7 folder. It didn't work, obviously. With the correct link, everything worked as expected. I know we are advised not to use the sun java. I have also read that there are conflicts with names which can cause java to get uninstalled. But is this such a big deal for someone who does not want to do development and can easily reinstall the jre package? Or are there other problems? I await issue 3 of Fedora weekly news with interest! James
