Re: Still no java

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/

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