Anybody got Sun's Java running on F8rc3?

[Peter Robinson]

> > >>> Yes, the plugin works.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Can you tell me exactly how you installed it?
> > >
> > ># yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin
> > >
> > >Rahul
> >
> > It was a 20k file, which seems odd, and it doesn't work.  Any ideas
> > where to go from here?  I did install java-1.7.0-icedtea and java-
> > 1.7.0-devel.  I can run programs and compile programs but the plugin
> > is dead.  Is there some other files that I need.  You used to have to
> > install compat-libstdc++-33 to make java plugins work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
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>
> Are you on x86 or x64?
>
> I'm on x64 and the only thing I had to do to get it to work other than
> installing it was remove nspluginwrapper and then reinstall it, not sure why
> it wouldn't config it, but the plugin showed up as a link in
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/pluggins but still didn't work until I re-installed.
>
> This should work, but didn't.
> /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config

I found that it didn't work for me either until I put a file with
/usr/lib64/firefox-2.0.0.8/ in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ and ran ldconfig.
Then both the java plugin and /usr/bin/mozilla-plugin-config started
working as expected.

Peter