On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 02:51 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 1/5/06, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > How do I make Firefox aware of Java? There is no automatic plug-in > > install for Firefox, so I had to manually download the jre. After > > installing it (it's an rpm), and restarting Firefox, it still says no > > Java installed. > > > > In the plugins folder you need a syslink to java. Assuming that you > have the latest Java: > > # ln -s /opt/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > /home/<user>/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so ---- this is a 1 user solution an all user solution (using your versioning)... ln -s /opt/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin.oji.so \ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but on my setup, this worked... ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins YMMV - especially depending upon which java you install. Craig
