On 1/23/07, Knute Johnson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Cohler wrote: > Knute Johnson <linux <at> rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> writes: > >> Does anybody have the Sun 1.6 JDK installed with JPackage and able to >> get the java plugin to work with Firefox? If I go to about:plugins it >> shows installed and enabled but I can't get any applets to run. I'm >> using JPackage 1.7b, Sun JDK 1.6 and Firefox 1.5.0.9 on FC 6. >> >> Thanks, >> > I installed the 1.6 JRE from java.sun.com - and it works fine. > > If you go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp > then under "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6" click downloads and > get the Linux bin file. > > Once that is untarred you can collect the appropriate plugin files > and make sure they are in the plugins directory. >>From wherever your java directory is stored you then need > java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > in the plugins directory either as the file or a link to the correct file > in the firefox plugins directory. You will need to restart firefox for it > to be active. > > This is how I do it and it seems to work fine. > > Thanks for your response Mike but I really want to get it to work with JPackage since that is apparently the future.
Java was recently opensourced by Sun; thus, removing the need for the purist to create another variant of java. How is JPackage the future?
-- Knute Johnson
