RHEL5 and Sun Java

[Nigel Wade]

Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Cameron Simpson Sent: March 20, 2009 18:47
>> On 20Mar2009 16:32, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com> wrote:
>> | It appears to install fine until I get to the point where I am 
>> | supposed to install the Firefox (version 3.0.7) plugin. The target
>> | directory for libjavaplugin_oji.so (/usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/plugins)
>> | did not exist so I created it and installed the symlink
>>
>> Have you checked that the symlink resolves?
>>
>>   ls -ldL /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> Bingo! I had the symlink pointing to itself. After the number of times
> that I have done this to myself you would think I would have learned
> by now to watch out for this but no, it seems I am doomed to repeat
> this over and over again. Arghhhhh!
> 
> Anyway I removed the faulty symlink and created the correct one in the
> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.7/plugins/ directory and everything works fine
> now (the Java Console shows up on the Tools menu and Firefox passes
> the Java.com web test). Now to document the whole process to make sure
> I can repeat it.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Regards, Hugh
> 

Of course, you could have just taken the easy option and installed the 
java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.12-1jpp.3.el5.i586.rpm package from RHN...

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