On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:11 +1030, 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). > > 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> I always install java to the /opt directory. When I get a new version I just untar it there, it installs and has the new version number in it's directory name. I link that directory to /opt/java which is where all the directories for the plugins are set to look for, as I first set them up. It makes upgrading really easy. I have ~/.mozilla/plugsins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so See? /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so All three, if you have installed other than firefox, like seamonkey. You should be covered and it should work... it does on this end. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
