Getting java to work?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Dec 7 21:27:40 UTC 2004


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Craig Thomas wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:32 -0600, shashank bhide wrote:
> >  FC3 comes with preinstalled Firefox, that too would not startup if I
> > were to create a sym link for the java plugin under its (Firefox's)
> > plugin directory.
> 
> I've had success creating the sym-link in 
> 
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins 
> 
> using the Sun 1.5 jdk.  It works for Firefox and Mozilla in one go.

And for java-1.4 - I belive you'll need xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
package as well. (In this case make sure you get the security fixed
version 1.4)

Satish




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