still no java after fc2->fc4 upgrade

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Aug 24 13:42:30 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:49:14PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> 
>>Jack Howarth wrote:
>>
>>>I have tried both the package nosrc rpms for jre 1.5.0 and the
>>>manual installation in /opt. After creating the symlink in
>>>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugin to jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>>I see the following failure when loading the test page (using the
>>>open java console menu item in the failed java applet window)...
>>>
>>
>>One possibility, at least with the JPackage RPM is messed up
>>alternatives.
>>
>>    ls /var/lib/alternatives
>>
>>will show you the various "master" alternatives on the system.  For each
>>one that looks Java related, do
>>
>>    alternatives --display ALTERNATIVE_NAME
>>
>>and make sure that everything is pointing to the correct place.  As a
>>quick check, you can also look for any broken symlinks in
>>/etc/alternatives.
>>
>>HTH
> 
> The best course of action is to go to the Sun site and download their
> latest java. It works better and is a later version than the FC4
> Java.-- 

Where do you suppose the OP got 
jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so from?

Paul.




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