Getting java to work?
Scott Talbot
talbotscott at cox.net
Tue Dec 7 21:44:26 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:32 -0600, shashank bhide wrote:
> > Instructions for setting up Java (and other plugins) for Firefox and
> > Linux can be found here:
> >
> > http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#plugins
>
> Hi,
> I seem to have the same problem, I installed firefox and did
> exactly as told in this faq
> (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#plugins). However,
> firefox refused to open up after I had created a sym link under the
> Firefox plugin directory.
Just a guess here, but Java 5.0 comes with 2 libjavaplugin_oji.so
files. Which you use depends on the version of libc or glibc (IIRC) my
FC3 and rawhide uses the one in the /java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/
directory.
Scott
> FC3 comes with preinstalled Firefox, that too would not startup if I
> were to create a sym link for the java plugin under its (Firefox's)
> plugin directory.
>
> Any resolution to this problem?
> Thanks a bunch
> Shashank
>
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