I folowed this to the letter buy still no working Java as verified on the test page at Sun Java This is from the Unoffical Fedora FAQ As suggested to me by someone on the list. The directions are quite clear and I followed them exactly and nothing failed to build. Does anyone have a working Java plugin and how did you do it? Thanks Jeanette You should have the Java Software Development Kit on your desktop. It is a file whose name looks like: jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin Open a Terminal. Become root: su - Make sure the "rpm-build" package is installed: yum install rpm-build Change back to your home directory (instead of root's home directory): cd ~username Where "username" is your normal username. Move the JDK to the RPM Building "sources" directory: mv Desktop/jdk-* /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ Download the JPackage Java 1.5.0.07 Source RPM. Click on the link that looks something like "java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.07-1jpp.nosrc.rpm." Then, on the next page, pick where you want to download the file from. This should download the package to your desktop. Go back to the same root terminal you were in before. Build the Java RPM (using the file that you just downloaded): rpmbuild --rebuild Desktop/java-1.5.0-sun*src.rpm This will create a bunch of RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/. You can install them by doing: yum -y localinstall /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-* Now you want to enable the Java plugin for your web browser: ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
