Can Java just shoot me?

[Tom Poe]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 22:04 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:52:20 -0500
>> David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Duh? This took about 10 seconds.
>>>
>>> Start here. Follow the prompts. Either one goes to the same page.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/29ktre
>>> https://sdlc4e.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet;jsessionid=60B8217CD6937C7D378EAE0D0B30D57A
>>>       
>> Yea, it takes about 10 seconds starting from that page, but how
>> do you know how to find that page starting from java.sun.com?
>> There are 15,000 potential paths to follow with no roadsigns :-).
>> For that matter, how do I know I need a jre rather than a jdk
>> (I've seen both tossed around on web pages about installing
>> java).
>>     
>
> Actually, try *this* page as it is even easier and simpler?
>
> http://www.java.com/en/
>
>   
Hi, All:  This is another Tom.  Not Tom H.  I downloaded onto FC6.  I 
followed instructions that included linking some *plugin*.so file, but 
Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) 
Gecko/20071019 Fedora/1.5.0.12-5.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.12 doesn't see it.  
I'm thinking I have to do something more in Firefox to enable?  Maybe?  
Any suggestions?
$ locate jre | less
/etc/alternatives/jre_1.4.2
/etc/alternatives/jre_1.4.2_exports
/etc/alternatives/jre_gcj
/etc/alternatives/jre_gcj_exports
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/COPYRIGHT
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/LICENSE
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/README