FC8/IcedTea Java Plugin/FireFox/R
Marc Schwartz
marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Tue Dec 11 04:02:11 UTC 2007
OK folks. Here is what I did to get the R java search applet working.
Note that this is on 32 bit F8, not 64 bit. Make any appropriate
adjustments as required.
1. Remove Iced Tea
sudo yum remove java-1.7.0-icedtea-*
2. Go to the java.sun.com web site and secure the appropriate JRE
download. In my case, it was:
jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
3. Set the above to be executable:
chmod +x jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
4. Run and install the above as root:
sudo ./jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
5. Create the symlink to the JRE plugin:
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
6. Be sure that you have no Firefox sessions open. If you do, close them all.
7. In R, type
help.start()
8. In the new Firefox session, click on the "Search Engine & Keywords" link
9. Pay attention to the lower left hand corner of the Firefox status
line. If all went well, you should see:
Applet SearchEngine started
indicating that all should be well. Just to check, enter a keyword
(eg. 'plot') and hit the search button.
HTH. It is working for me here.
Cheers,
Marc Schwartz
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list