Sun JDK 1.6, Java plugin, Firefox?

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 18:30:37 UTC 2007


On 1/23/07, Knute Johnson <linux at rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote:
> Mike Cohler wrote:
> > Knute Johnson <linux <at> rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes:
> >
> >> Does anybody have the Sun 1.6 JDK installed with JPackage and able to
> >> get the java plugin to work with Firefox?  If I go to about:plugins it
> >> shows installed and enabled but I can't get any applets to run.  I'm
> >> using JPackage 1.7b, Sun JDK 1.6 and Firefox 1.5.0.9 on FC 6.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> > I installed the 1.6 JRE from java.sun.com - and it works fine.
> >
> > If you go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
> > then under "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6" click downloads and
> > get the Linux bin file.
> >
> > Once that is untarred you can collect the appropriate plugin files
> > and make sure they are in the plugins directory.
> >>From wherever your java directory is stored you then need
> > java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> > in the plugins directory either as the file or a link to the correct file
> > in the firefox plugins directory. You will need to restart firefox for it
> > to be active.
> >
> > This is how I do it and it seems to work fine.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for your response Mike but I really want to get it to work with
> JPackage since that is apparently the future.

Java was recently opensourced by Sun; thus, removing the need for the
purist to create another variant of java.

How is JPackage the future?

> --
> Knute Johnson




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