Problems installing Java

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:43 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:12:49 -0700, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 16:33 -0800, Jared Buck wrote:
> > > Hey all, I am having problems installing Java in Linux.  I have
> > > downloaded the Binary RPM, made it executable, then executed it to
> > > extract the RPM.
> > >
> > > I ran the RPM and it installed just fine.  But I use Firefox, obviously,
> > > so I need some way to get it to recognize the java plugin.  I followed
> > > the instructions under configuration on the Java configuration website
> > > and did the ln command as instructed.  Java isn't recognized.
> > >
> > > I configured it as it instructed, to configure it under mozilla 1.7.3.
> > > Am I doing something wrong here, like configuring it for 1.73 when it
> > > should be configured under firefox's plugins directory?
> > >
> > > Help would be appreciated here.
> > ----
> 
> Ok first thing first and do an rpm -e and remove the java instance you
> installed because well it does not work.
> 
> Then do this:
> 
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java
> 
> Add dag's repostiory to your yum.conf but do NOT enable it by default.
> 
> yum --enablerepo=dag install j2re mozilla-j2re
> 
> That is that.
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call me nuts but if there was one repo to have enabled by default, it
would be dag's - but that's me I guess.

YMMV

Craig