On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:19 +0530, Rogue wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Karl Larsen wrote: > > I had no problem finding the PAGE with the things to d/l. The problem > > is getting the dam stuff to WORK!! I followed the Install guidance which > > is hard to read, but I made the directory /usr/java/ which does not > > exist on F7, and I did the bash file from that directory which put > > another directory above /usr/java/jre1... which seems to have all the > > java stuff. > > > But Firefox can't find this even though it says it will check > > /usr/java/. Should I move everything from that jre1... directory to > > /usr/java/? > > You need to symlink the libjavaplugin.so file to your mozilla plugins > directory. > > I suspect that you already have a file > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so pointing to the icedtea > version of the plugin, via the /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so > > If you wish to consume the Sun's plugin, then you need to remove this > file and create a symlink to the Sun's plugin > > ln -s /usr/java/jre1.*/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . > > Now restart firefox and you should see the new plugin take effect. > > On the other hand, I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me > how to use the alternatives to pick up the Sun's environment. ---- this link suggests that the blackdown version of java works properly on 86_64 systems... http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/ YMMV Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
