fedora-list Digest, Vol 45, Issue 259

[Karl Larsen]

Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> to, 2007-11-22 kello 10:07:04 -0700, Craig White kirjoitti:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 22:19 +0530, Rogue wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>>    I had no problem finding the PAGE with the things to d/l. The problem
>>>> is getting the dam stuff to WORK!! I followed the Install guidance which
>>>> is hard to read, but I made the directory /usr/java/ which does not
>>>> exist on F7, and I did the bash file from that directory which put
>>>> another directory above /usr/java/jre1... which seems to have all the
>>>> java stuff.
>>>>         
>>>>    But Firefox can't find this even though it says it will check
>>>> /usr/java/. Should I move everything from that jre1... directory to
>>>> /usr/java/?
>>>>         
>>> You need to symlink the libjavaplugin.so file to your mozilla plugins
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> I suspect that you already have a file
>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so pointing to the icedtea
>>> version of the plugin, via the /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so
>>>
>>> If you wish to consume the Sun's plugin, then you need to remove this
>>> file and create a symlink to the Sun's plugin
>>>
>>> ln -s /usr/java/jre1.*/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
>>>
>>> Now restart firefox and you should see the new plugin take effect.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, I would really appreciate it if someone can tell me
>>> how to use the alternatives to pick up the Sun's environment.
>>>       
>> ----
>> this link suggests that the blackdown version of java works properly on
>> 86_64 systems...
>>
>> http://fedora64.org/desktop-64-posts/java-x86_64/
>>
>> YMMV
>>
>> Craig
>>     
>
> I'd advise against trying the blackdown java - at least for F7 and
> Firefox 2.0.0.9. I just went through the installation process and as a
> result my 64-bit Firefox crashed when loading my ISP's home page.
> The 32-bit Firefox still worked - and so did the 64-bit Firefox after I
> unlink'ed the 64-bit java plugin. It may have worked in FC5 and FF1.5...
> I've never succeeded in making 64-bit java work in FC4-F7. Things may be
> different now with F8 and IcedTea - but that has to wait my F8
> installation which is not going to happen anytime soon.
>
> Regards
>
> Antti
>
>
>   
    I have Java working on F7 and F8. Now I wonder why? I do not see any 
advantage yet to having Java installed.

Regards
Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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