How do I make firefox do java?

[David Limon Romero]

El Sáb 06 Ago 2005 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry escribió:

> I'm using an FC3 box.
> If I point firefox at an applet, it tells me to
> download a plugin.
> Following the link is not helpful.
> Reading old fedora list messages caused me to
> download and try to install jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm .
> rpm told me that package jre-1.5.0_01-fcs is already
> installed, but I can find no other evidence of it.
> Presumably, I'm looking in the wrong place or for the wrong thing.
> locate jre had produced
> /home/hennebry/tars/netpbm-10.18.17/converter/ppm/ppmtompeg/jrevdct.c
> /usr/share/texmf/ptex/platex/base/jreport.cls
> /usr/share/texmf/ptex/platex/base/jreport.sty
> /usr/share/latex2html/styles/jreport.perl
> /usr/share/doc/docbook-style-xsl-1.65.1/docsrc/xsl2jref.xsl
> /usr/share/doc/docbook-style-xsl-1.65.1/docsrc/jrefhtml.xsl
> /usr/share/doc/docbook-style-xsl-1.65.1/doc/jrefhtml.xsl
>
> ls /usr/java produced
> ls: /usr/java: No such file or directory
>
> What am I supposed to do to use java and firefox?
> Perhaps more importantly,
> how was I supposed to be able to find out?

Try this:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_To_Install_Java_Plugin_on_FC4
It's for FC4 but I think that should work for FC3 too... 

David
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