On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 20:48 -0800, Ed Landaveri wrote: > Stan, did you create the soft links after installing jre. Review the > instructions on the Sun download site. I usually prefer the tar > because the jre rpm gives you one step more as a real Red Hat rpm > does. After you upgrade Firefox it's an issue. This is what I did: > 1. Download jre-1_5_0-linux-i586-.bin > 2. su-->pwd-->mv jre-1_5_0-linux-i586-.bin to /usr/local > 3. chmod a+x jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin > 4. verify permissions: ls -l > 5. ./jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin > 6. Do you agree? Yes.-->Done > 7. It's installed under: /usr/java/jre1.5.0 > 8. cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins/ > 9. ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > 10.Edit > Preferences. Under Advanced category > Select Enable Java > After upgrading Firefox: > [root@tuxie ~]# cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/plugins/ > [root@tuxie plugins]# ln > -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > [root@tuxie plugins]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > [root@tuxie plugins]#ln > -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > Hope this helps. Close, but I do it this way: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#Java This method more fully complies with the official Fedora Core 4 release notes. Also described in the link above are instructions for using the alternatives method to select the Sun Java installation for running Java applications. Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/
