Re: Mozilla/Flash/Java

[Juan Eliseo Carrasco Díaz <eliseo cicei com>]

Don wrote:

> Using Mozilla, when I go to a web page ( 
> http://web.canon.jp/Imaging/EOS1DS/ ) that requires Flash, I can 
> simply click the link that takes me to the plugin place and I get it, 
> it installs and I can use it... works great...
>  
> When I go to a page that needs Java, I get a little puzzle piece 
> displayed and when I click on that I get a message like "you need 
> something you don't have".
>  
> I understand the JRE is not "open" so is not included with Fedora, but 
> shouldn't "get the plugin" work properly?
>  
> I was really expecting this to be resolved with FC1, but it's still 
> broken. Or is this a "WONTFIX" issue?
>
> Don Russell
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My steps to install java in Linux:
1) download from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html the Linux 
RPM in self-extracting file (JRE)
2) It is a binary file, so chmod +x j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.rpm.bin 
... and ./j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.rpm.bin
3) Accept the license and then you will have the 
j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.rpm package.
4) rpm -ivh j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.rpm
5) cd /usr/java
6) ln -s j2re1.4.2_02 j2re ; ln -s j2re/javaws
7) export into /etc/profile  JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re and add 
/usr/java/j2re/bin to the path, save /etc/profile and run # source 
/etc/profile
8) cd /usr/local/bin ; ln -s /usr/java/javaws/javaws
9) cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ; ln -s 
/usr/java/j2re/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so

and that's all! 8)

To upgrade a new j2re version it's so easy as:

1) rpm -Uvh j2re-1_4_(new_version).rpm
2) cd /usr/java
3) ln -sf j2re1.4.(new_version) j2re
4) Look if the plugin is different...