firefox and java

[Erik Ellestad]

I'm still trying to figure out the alternatives system myself; but, 
the instructions on the following web page worked for me:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-27965.html

Erik

>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:29:09AM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>  On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
>>
>>  > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:37:06PM -0500, Claude Jones wrote:
>>  > > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>  > >
>>  > > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:43 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > > > I seem to have "firefox-1.0" and "firefox-0.10.1" directories
>>  > > > under /usr/lib although the Firefox version that's executing 
>>is 1.0.  Do
>>  > > > I need to uninstall anything in order to get this to work.
>>  > >
>>  > > "Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins
>>  > > directory.
>>  >
>>  > In some very old messages I seem to recall that
>>  > a copy of the file was needed not a symbolic link.
>>
>>  It's the other way around--link required, not copy.
>>
>
>Thanks for the sanity check.
>
>The original poster should know that with the sun java
>distribution and firefox 1 on FC3 was able to enable
>java in firefox with a simple link (be sure to
>enable java in firefox too).
>
>The below might help....
>
>When installing java there is some interaction with alternatives on
>FC3 that I do not have a correct solution for.  I just renamed the
>alternatives hooks and made 'fresh links'.
>
># file /usr/bin/java*
>/usr/bin/java:               symbolic link to `/usr/java/jdk1.5.0/bin/java'
>/usr/bin/java-alternatives:  symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/java'
>/usr/bin/javac:              symbolic link to `/usr/java/jdk1.5.0/bin/javac'
>/usr/bin/javac-alternatives: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/javac'
>
># java -version
>java version "1.5.0"
>Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b64)
>Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-b64, mixed mode, sharing)
># firefox -v
>Mozilla Firefox 1.0, Copyright (c) 2004 mozilla.org
># find / -xdev -name libjavaplugin_oji.so | while read i
>>  do
>>  ls -l $i
>>  done
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 185988 Sep 15 06:18 
>/usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 134116 Sep 15 06:18 
>/usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 59 Jan  4 14:33 
>/usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
>/usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
>I wish I knew more about java....
>
>
>
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