Bob Goodwin wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:49 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
bookmark this site, it's invaluable. Just follow the steps, use cut
n paste, and you'll have to right on the button.
http://www.stanton-finley.net
This one is a keeper, the steps for FC5 are good for FC6.
I tried that with FC6, just a few days ago. The Sun site had moved onto
Java 1.6.0, which didn't work (installed, no errors, just doesn't appear
to work when I tested it). I've just had another bash, making sure I
got all the new paths right. The Java test page (*) doesn't work with
Java 1.6.0 (no results are shown, it's blank in the test part), but I
don't know if that's just the test page. I don't know a site using Java
to test it with, but the games I tried on the Sun site didn't work.
Today, when I tried the link from the Stanton-Finley site, Sun didn't
redirect me to the latest, but stayed at the release number the link was
intended for (1.5.x). It's now jre1.5.0_10 instead of jre1.5.0_8, so
the paths in the examples to copy and paste need correcting. That done,
it worked, but the test page wants to install a JRE plug in, even though
it's apparently working, and tells me I'm using an old version. The
games apparently work (not that *I* can play them).
*I think I made the necessary changes to a procedure** by Paul
Howarth that** I found,*
*without success.*
*I then tried the procedure described on the Sun page which offers
1.5.09 instead of 10*
*and that's no go also, I get a huge list of dependency failures,
normally I would work my*
*way through the list but I had no success finding them so far? So
I will try the various *
*suggestions I've received this morning. I haven't bothered with
Java since FC4 but in this
case my grandson had a game **he wanted his father to try on his new
Linux install.
I'm trying to wean them on to FC6.*
*Thanks, Bob*
Anybody care to make suggestions? Stick with the old version, solutions
to make the current version work? It was the "current" release version
I tried, not the latest, not yet release-version, version.
* Java test page: <http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml>
Ok, I made a link: ln -s
/usr/local/sbin/java/jdk1.5.0_10/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
in firefox/plugins and the test page thinks it is working. I had
downloaded jdk1.5.0_10 yesterday but was not successful with the rpm
method described elsewhere.
Thanks for all the help.
Bob Goodwin
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