On Sunday 02 July 2006 01:24, Jeanette Russo wrote: > 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/ > I followed the instructions at http://www.city-fan.org/tips/JpackageJava Anne
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