Re: java-plugin not working in F8

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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)
>
>
>
> --
> Mike A. Harris
>
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>
>

Just an update; I installed a fresh Fedora 8 from Gnome Live CD and by
default java doesn't work.

I have installed latest updates and I will now install java-plugin and
test it again and give you feedback.

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