Problems installing Java

[Johnathan Bailes]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:12:49 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:33 -0800, Jared Buck wrote:
> > Hey all, I am having problems installing Java in Linux.  I have
> > downloaded the Binary RPM, made it executable, then executed it to
> > extract the RPM.
> >
> > I ran the RPM and it installed just fine.  But I use Firefox, obviously,
> > so I need some way to get it to recognize the java plugin.  I followed
> > the instructions under configuration on the Java configuration website
> > and did the ln command as instructed.  Java isn't recognized.
> >
> > I configured it as it instructed, to configure it under mozilla 1.7.3.
> > Am I doing something wrong here, like configuring it for 1.73 when it
> > should be configured under firefox's plugins directory?
> >
> > Help would be appreciated here.
> ----

Ok first thing first and do an rpm -e and remove the java instance you
installed because well it does not work.

Then do this:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java

Add dag's repostiory to your yum.conf but do NOT enable it by default.

yum --enablerepo=dag install j2re mozilla-j2re

That is that.