Perhaps some other newbie running Fedora 3 can benefit from this summary:
I've been trying to get the Java runtime environment to work with Firefox 1.0. This is the version that comes with Fedora 3 -- it's from the package firefox-1.0-2.fc3 and its files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.
After much fiddling with this, I ended up two versions of the Java runtime environment installed in directories /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 and /usr/java/jrel.5.0. I wanted to use the latter, more recent version 5.0 with Firefox.
I went to the directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7 where I found only the file libjavaplugin_oji.so. Then, as superuser, I created a link in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0 directory: ln -sf libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Executing ls, the link libjavaplugin_oji.so should appear in blue -- if it appears in red and flashes this means the link has not been established successfully.
Firefox doesn't telegraph the news that its java plugin has been successfully installed. A good place to go to test this is http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp -- if you can see the dancing Duke logo™ image animated in the applet, then the JRE is functioning correctly.
The main thing I've learned from all this is that unix will be merciless when a user confuses the letter "l" and the number "1".
Thanks for everybody's help -- and happy new year!
Jerry
Gerhard Magnus wrote, On 01/01/2005 09:02 PM:
Perhaps some other newbie running Fedora 3 can benefit from this summary:
I've been trying to get the Java runtime environment to work with Firefox 1.0. This is the version that comes with Fedora 3 -- it's from the package firefox-1.0-2.fc3 and its files are in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.
After much fiddling with this, I ended up two versions of the Java runtime environment installed in directories /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 and /usr/java/jrel.5.0. I wanted to use the latter, more recent version 5.0 with Firefox.
I went to the directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7 where I found only the file libjavaplugin_oji.so. Then, as superuser, I created a link in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0 directory: ln -sf libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Executing ls, the link libjavaplugin_oji.so should appear in blue -- if it appears in red and flashes this means the link has not been established successfully.
Firefox doesn't telegraph the news that its java plugin has been successfully installed. A good place to go to test this is http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.jsp -- if you can see the dancing Duke logo™ image animated in the applet, then the JRE is functioning correctly.
The main thing I've learned from all this is that unix will be merciless when a user confuses the letter "l" and the number "1".
Thanks for everybody's help -- and happy new year!
Jerry
Yes, I see him and he moves but the top of his head is slightly cut off. Also my system description is cut off on the right in the box. But I am running a blackdown version for fc3 x86_64. -gene
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