help installing JRE and make it work with firefox 3, on fedora 10 x64 arch

Paulo Cavalcanti promac at gmail.com
Wed Feb 11 23:42:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:

> David Antonio Garcia Campos wrote:
> > I have tried pretty much all the instructions found on the net, but I
> have
> > been unable to install JRE and make it work with firefox 3.
>
> What's wrong with the openjdk JRE which ships with Fedora? It even passes
> the official Java compatibility testsuite now.
>
> yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
> should just work. In Fedora 10, the plugin even supports LiveConnect (the
> JavaScript-Java bridge).
>
>


In my case, I need to access a bank account which only authenticates
me if I use the jre from SUN. Worst, for the time being, only the 32 bit
version.

Nothing would makes me happier than getting rid of SUN jre once for all.
I can assure you I am not a masochist.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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