JRE for Firefox

[Keith Sharp]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:30 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> I'm a little confused about all this so please be gentle.
> 
> I'm looking for a JRE to use as a plugin for Firefox.  In the past I
> would have just hooked into the jre pluggin supplied with Sun's Java,
> but since I'm testing the current fedora 4 development and it seems that
> FC4 intends to do without the need for Sun's Java (I could be wrong)
> could someone tell me what package I'm supposed to install to get a JRE
> for firefox (and any other steps I might need to perform).

If you want a JRE that will be compatible with FC4 then use one of the
nosrc.rpm files from http://www.jpackage.org/.  The Red Hat Java team
are collaborating with the JPackage team so FC4 should work ok.

Keith.