java-plugin not working in F8

[Mike A. Harris]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 12:57 PM, Mike A. Harris <mharris at mharris.ca> 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 don't have anything called "java-plugin" installed, but Java seems to 
be working fine:

pts/7 mharris at hammer:~$ rpm -q java-plugin
package java-plugin is not installed


> 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.

Both of those pages work for me and correctly detect "Java 1.7.0 from 
Sun Microsystems".  Again, note that I did not install Sun Java, so this 
message is coming from iced-tea presumeably.  Here's a query of my 
system showing what packages containing 'java' in the name that are 
installed:

pts/7 mharris at hammer:~$ rpm -qa | grep java | sort
glib-java-0.2.6-8.fc7
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8
java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8
java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8
java_cup-0.10-0.k.6jpp.1
tzdata-java-2007i-1.fc8


> Any other ideas?

If you have any proprietary Java packages installed, remove them, and if 
you are missing any of the above packages, install them.  Then restart 
firefox, or reboot.


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