Firefox-1.0.4 and Java

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:15 -0400, Asa Canaway wrote:
> Okay, this seems odd, and I may be doing something wrong.  I downloaded
> Java jre-1.0.5_02, and installed it, then linked (ln -s) to the
> javaplugin_oji.so (/usr/java/jre-1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29) in
> Firefox plugins (/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4/plugins), and then Firefox won't
> start.  I remove the link, and Firefox starts!  I've done this many
> times before.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug with Firefox
> (it works on my FC3 box), FC4T3 or even Java?
> 
> Sorry about my previous posts (if you've seen them).  Hopefully this
> formats better on the test list.
> 

Java works for me in rawhide.
I use the jpackage.org nosrc.rpm to create java rpm's of Sun's j2sdk
1.5.0
Install them - and it just works. On x86 anyway.

I really recommend using jpackage.org for anything Java in Fedora. With
rare exceptions, it just plain works.