FC4 Firefox/Java
Shantanu Shah
theashworld at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 30 17:20:50 UTC 2005
>
> Hi All,
>
> Does the new FC4 Firefox automatically handle
> downloading Flash and Java
> plugins ? If not, what is the simplest way to do
> this - I have watched
> a lot of stuff go by about Java in the last few
> days, but assumed this
> was for stand-alone Java applications rather than in
> the browser - is
> that correct ?
>
> Jonathan
By default FC4 does not ship with Java or Flash
plugins.
To install:
* Download the java plugin JRE 1.5 Update 3 from sun
from : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp.
Download the Linux self extracting file (ends with
.bin). Do not download the .rpm package! Read the
Fedora Core 4 release notes if you want to know why.
* Run #chmod +x jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin and then
#./jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin to install the plugin.
* Move the package to /opt/ directory by running #mv
jre1.5.0_03 /opt/
* Next make a symbolic link for firefox to recognize
the plugin. #ln -s
/opt/jre1.5.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
More details at:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux
* To install the flash plugin, just visit any page
with flash content on it. Firefox shows a message on
top of the page saying that some plugins are required
for the page. Click on the link and install flash.
From:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~scs49/install_linux.html
Enjoy!
~Shan
***
Shantanu Shah
theashworld at yahoo.com
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