On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:15 -0400, Asa Canaway wrote: > Okay, this seems odd, and I may be doing something wrong. I downloaded > Java jre-1.0.5_02, and installed it, then linked (ln -s) to the > javaplugin_oji.so (/usr/java/jre-1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29) in > Firefox plugins (/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins), and then Firefox won't > start. I remove the link, and Firefox starts! I've done this many > times before. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug with Firefox > (it works on my FC3 box), FC4T3 or even Java? > > Sorry about my previous posts (if you've seen them). Hopefully this > formats better on the test list. > Java works for me in rawhide. I use the jpackage.org nosrc.rpm to create java rpm's of Sun's j2sdk 1.5.0 Install them - and it just works. On x86 anyway. I really recommend using jpackage.org for anything Java in Fedora. With rare exceptions, it just plain works.