Re: How to install Java/Frefox in FC6 -

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On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 22:40 -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> Les wrote:
> > 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.
> >>     
> At long last I got the 1.6 Java plugin to work in FF in FC 6.   The 
> plugin as well as as the Java contol panel (jcontrol) require 
> libstdc++.so.5 to operate.  This is an older version then the one that 
> ships with FC 6 (libstdc++.so.6.0.8).  After I installed 
> compat-libstdc++-33 both the plugin and jcontrol started working.

Yup, just checked I have them both installed. So, I've had no problems.
I just installed the the latest jdk-6 bin file and firefox has no
problems. I ran the tests and it's is detected. Ric

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