On Nov 9, 2007 2:14 PM, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > On Nov 9, 2007 12:57 PM, Mike A. Harris <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Mike Chambers wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:44 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I installed java plugin via 'yum install java-plugin' and firefox > >>>> still complains that plugin is not installed... > >>>> I'm running 32bit fedora (I saw previous mails regarding F7 on 64bit). > >>> Just install the java-icedtea-plugin (just look for icedtea) from Fedora > >>> and it will work just fine. > >>> > >>> Otherwise, maybe you need to create a link to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > >>> as well? > >> I'm running F8/x86_64 and haven't manually installed any Java stuff yet, > >> just whatever might have been installed by anaconda by default. Up > >> until now I hadn't visited any web pages with Java on them. > >> > >> A lot of people have been having problems with Java it seems, and so I > >> decided to try to get it to work myself. I google searched for a "Java > >> test", went to the Sun page, and it just worked automatically already, > >> presumeably with iced-tea, which I assume was installed for me already > >> by anaconda. I went to a variety of other Java websites to test it out > >> and have had no problems at all so far. All Java sites work in firefox > >> for me automatically. > >> > >> As mentioned above, I haven't had to install anything, configure > >> anything, or do anything manual for this to work, it just works out of > >> the box on x86_64, at least for me. > >> > >> I can only assume that the people having the problems either: > >> > >> 1) Are coming from an upgrade of a previous OS release > >> or > >> 2) Have Sun, IBM, or some other Java installed already, or are trying to > >> install some other Java > >> 3) Have upgraded and didn't get iced-tea by default perhaps. > >> > >> Anyhow, worst case scenario -> do a fresh OS install and Java seems to > >> work in firefox right out of the box. ;o) > > > > I only installed java-plugin, I already had java installed > > out-of-the-box in this fresh Fedora 8 Gnome Live CD install. > > > > I tested one java page prior to installing java-plugin and it said > > that java wasn't installed, after instalation of java-plugin I now > > tested it again with following pages: > > http://www.javatester.org/ > > http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > > > > and both say I don't have java plugin installed. > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > Repeating myself: > > Run mozilla-plugin-config (once, as root) > Jup, you were right. Everything works ok now, but why isn't this automatically done?!? Should this be posted as a bug? -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
