java plugin firefox and ibm's website

[Johnathan Bailes]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 20:31 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote:
> > 1. download jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin from Sun (go to 
> > http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and select the "Linux RPM 
> > (self-extracting file)")
> > 2. run it to extract jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm
> > 3. rpm -ivh jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm
> > 4. cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins
> > 5. ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
> > 6. restart Firefox
> 
> ok i'll try this again, it could be that i chose the wrong file, they 
> have 2 .bin files i must have chose the *Linux (self-extracting file)*
> (filesize: 15.8 MB)
> 
> instead of the *Linux RPM (self-extracting file)*
> (filesize: 15.4 MB)
> 
> well get back in a few.
> 
> thx
> mike
> 

You typically want the Linux RPM or you could do this:

Add this to your yum.conf:
[dag]
name=Dag APT Repository
baseurl=http://dag.freshrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
  http://dag.atrpms.net/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/

http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1

Then run two commands:

rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

yum --enablerepo=dag install j2re mozilla-j2re

No more searching the web and worrying over it.

You can also grab Acrobat for the pdf plugin with:

yum --enablerepo=dag install mozilla-acroread

His package of the xine version of totem is great too:

yum --enablerepo=dag install totem-xine

Notice you are adding a repo but you keep it disabled.  

dag keeps like a ton of stuff in his repository so you can look on his
anytime you are missing something you want and use enablerepo switch to
install it.

Why not just enable it?

Its a personal choice but I like to keep the number of enabled repos to
a minimum.