JAVA Plugin Won't Work

[Michael Kearey]

Dave Krick wrote:
> I am fairly new to Linux, and I can't seem to get Java to work.  I've
> downloaded the plugin and followed the registration instructions, all to
> no avail.  I've checked that my preferences have it enabled and I've
> gone in as root to a web site that I know uses it and, when prompted if
> I want to download it, I've said yes and, after doing it's thing, it
> tells me that it was downloaded and installed okay.  I'll restart
> Mozilla and it still won't recognize Java.  
> 
> I'm running Fedora Core 1 and Mozilla 1.6.  I had the same situation
> with Mozilla 1.5 and 1.4.  I have Fedora updated to the latest status.
> 
> I would really appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions for me.  If
> you do, please be detailed in any command line instructions.
> 
> Thanks.

This works near to 100% of the time:
http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#Java

Cheers, Michael