java-plugin not working in F8

[Hans de Goede]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 12:28 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> 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?
> 
> AFAIK java-plugin is the same as java-icedtea-plugin
> 
> look for your self:
> 
> # yum search icedtea
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin.i586 : IcedTea Web Browser Plugin
> 
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-devel.i586 : IcedTea Development Environment
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-javadoc.i586 : IcedTea API Documentation
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-demo.i586 : IcedTea Demos
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-src.i586 : IcedTea Source Bundle
> java-1.7.0-icedtea.i586 : IcedTea Runtime Environment
> java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin.i586 : IcedTea Web Browser Plugin
> java-1.7.0-icedtea.i586 : IcedTea Runtime Environment
> 
> # yum install java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Package java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin - 1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8.i586
> is already installed.
> Nothing to do
> 
> 

The trick is to run "mozilla-plugin-config" once as root, this sets up 
nspluginwrapper to find the plugin and possibly other plugins too.

We need to document and fix this, this should be done automagically.

Regards,

Hans