How to install Java/Frefox in FC6 -

[Bob Goodwin]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:49 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> bookmark this site, it's invaluable. Just follow the steps, use cut
>>> n paste, and you'll have to right on the button. 
>>> http://www.stanton-finley.net
>>>
>>> This one is a keeper, the steps for FC5 are good for FC6.
>>
>> I tried that with FC6, just a few days ago.  The Sun site had moved onto
>> Java 1.6.0, which didn't work (installed, no errors, just doesn't appear
>> to work when I tested it).  I've just had another bash, making sure I
>> got all the new paths right.  The Java test page (*) doesn't work with
>> Java 1.6.0 (no results are shown, it's blank in the test part), but I
>> don't know if that's just the test page.  I don't know a site using Java
>> to test it with, but the games I tried on the Sun site didn't work.
>>
>> Today, when I tried the link from the Stanton-Finley site, Sun didn't
>> redirect me to the latest, but stayed at the release number the link was
>> intended for (1.5.x).  It's now jre1.5.0_10 instead of jre1.5.0_8, so
>> the paths in the examples to copy and paste need correcting.  That done,
>> it worked, but the test page wants to install a JRE plug in, even though
>> it's apparently working, and tells me I'm using an old version.  The
>> games apparently work (not that *I* can play them).
>
>    *I think I made the necessary changes to a procedure** by Paul
>    Howarth that** I found,*
>    *without success.*
>
>    *I then tried the procedure described on the Sun page which offers
>    1.5.09 instead of 10*
>    *and that's no go also, I get a huge list of dependency failures,
>    normally I would work my*
>    *way through the list but I had no success finding them so far?  So
>    I will try the various *
>    *suggestions I've received this morning.  I haven't bothered with
>    Java since FC4 but in this
>    case my grandson had a game **he wanted his father to try on his new
>    Linux install.
>    I'm trying to wean them on to FC6.*
>
>    *Thanks, Bob*
>
>>
>> Anybody care to make suggestions?  Stick with the old version, solutions
>> to make the current version work?  It was the "current" release version
>> I tried, not the latest, not yet release-version, version.
>>
>> * Java test page: <http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml>
Ok, I made a link:   ln -s 
/usr/local/sbin/java/jdk1.5.0_10/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so  
in firefox/plugins  and the test page thinks it is working.  I had 
downloaded jdk1.5.0_10 yesterday but was not successful with the rpm 
method described elsewhere.

Thanks for all the help.

Bob Goodwin






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