On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:51:11 -0700 Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What else do I need to do? Here's the complete walkthrough that finally worked for me in the install java game :-). As root, do this: 1. yum erase java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin That gets the icedtea version out of the way so there will be no browser plugin conflict with the sun version (probably there are more subtle ways to deal with this, but this big hammer worked for me). 2. Go to http://www.java.com/ in firefox, and click the big green button, then click a few more buttons to ask to download the 32 bit linux self extracting rpm. 3. This gets you a file named jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin in whatever directory firefox downloaded to (default firefox setup for downloads is the ~/Desktop directory). 4. cd to that directory 5. chmod a+x jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin 6. Now as root run: ./jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin That will spew a bunch of license junk to agree to, then unpack and install the rpm. 7. Still as root: cd /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/lib/i386/xawt/ sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' libmawt.so That hacks around a bug, allowing things to work on Fedora 8. 8. Also still as root: cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . That actually links the plugin to a location where firefox can find it (should work for all users from there). Ta-DA! After those simple and obvious steps, Java works in 32bit firefox. On a 64 bit system you can run 32 bit firefox via the command: setarch i386 firefox (No doubt there is another set of simple and obvious steps to get it working in 64 bit firefox with the nspluginwrapper stuff, but I'm happy just running 32 bit firefox). Oops! I forgot to mention, if you haven't already installed it for other reasons, you may also need to run as root: yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386 That gets the old C++ libs needed by the plugin binary. (I already had them, but several of the web pages on java say you need to get 'em, and it can't hurt).
