Getting java to work?

[James McKenzie]

Hardy Merrill wrote:
> Note that this is totally from memory (done last
> night), and I did NOT get confirmation in Firefox that
> the pluggin is seen by Firefox.
> 
> cd to Firefox pluggins directory:
> 
>    /usr/lib/Firefox-1.0/pluggins
> 
> and create a link to the java plugin library:
> 
>   ln -s
> /usr/java/jdk5.0/jre/<path>/<to>/libjavaplugin.oji .
> 
> Then, I believe you *should* be able to close Firefox
> and re-open it, then do
> 
>    - Edit
>      - Preferences
>        - Download
>          - click on Plugins, and java should be listed
> 
> But as I said, I couldn't get java to be listed there.
> 
> HTH.
> --- Shane Presley <shane.presley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>Fairly new to Fedora (and linux).  Running FC3. 
>>Came with Mozzila,
>>but I also instaleld Firefox.  Browsers work fine. 
>>No proxies
>>involved.
>>
>>I wanted to be able to run Java, and it didn't seem
>>to be installed. 
>>So I downloaded Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
>>(J2SE) from
>>java.com.  Installed the rpm.  Seemed to work fine.
>>
>>Now under preferences, I see Java, and there is one
>>version of Java
>>Applet Runtime Settings and one version of Java
>>Application Runtime
>>Settings. Both are enabled.
>>
>>But in my browser, when I try to view any java
>>applets
>>(http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp) I
>>get a message
>>telling me I need a plugin (Sun Java J2SE50).  I
>>have restarted my
>>browser, even the entire system once.  Still doesn't
>>know I have java
>>installed?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Shane
>>
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Hardy:

You have to specify the file name and there is problems with jdk5.0.  I 
recommend using the JRE 1.4.2 VM.  I did a soft link to the 
libjavaplugin.oji in the ns610-gcc32 directory.

James McKenzie