to, 2007-11-22 kello 10:07:04 -0700, Craig White kirjoitti: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:19 +0530, Rogue wrote: > > > > Karl Larsen wrote: > > > I had no problem finding the PAGE with the things to d/l. The problem > > > is getting the dam stuff to WORK!! I followed the Install guidance which > > > is hard to read, but I made the directory /usr/java/ which does not > > > exist on F7, and I did the bash file from that directory which put > > > another directory above /usr/java/jre1... which seems to have all the > > > java stuff. > > > > > But Firefox can't find this even though it says it will check > > > /usr/java/. Should I move everything from that jre1... directory to > > > /usr/java/? > > > > You need to symlink the libjavaplugin.so file to your mozilla plugins > > directory. > > > > I suspect that you already have a file > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so pointing to the icedtea > > version of the plugin, via the /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so > > > > If you wish to consume the Sun's plugin, then you need to remove this > > file and create a symlink to the Sun's plugin > > > > ln -s /usr/java/jre1.*/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . > > > > Now restart firefox and you should see the new plugin take effect. > > > > On the other hand, I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me > > how to use the alternatives to pick up the Sun's environment. > ---- > this link suggests that the blackdown version of java works properly on > 86_64 systems... > > http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/ > > YMMV > > Craig I'd advise against trying the blackdown java - at least for F7 and Firefox 2.0.0.9. I just went through the installation process and as a result my 64-bit Firefox crashed when loading my ISP's home page. The 32-bit Firefox still worked - and so did the 64-bit Firefox after I unlink'ed the 64-bit java plugin. It may have worked in FC5 and FF1.5... I've never succeeded in making 64-bit java work in FC4-F7. Things may be different now with F8 and IcedTea - but that has to wait my F8 installation which is not going to happen anytime soon. Regards Antti
