How to install Java/Frefox in FC6 -

[Bob Goodwin]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:49 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>> bookmark this site, it's invaluable. Just follow the steps, use cut
>> n paste, and you'll have to right on the button. 
>> http://www.stanton-finley.net
>>
>> This one is a keeper, the steps for FC5 are good for FC6.
>
> I tried that with FC6, just a few days ago.  The Sun site had moved onto
> Java 1.6.0, which didn't work (installed, no errors, just doesn't appear
> to work when I tested it).  I've just had another bash, making sure I
> got all the new paths right.  The Java test page (*) doesn't work with
> Java 1.6.0 (no results are shown, it's blank in the test part), but I
> don't know if that's just the test page.  I don't know a site using Java
> to test it with, but the games I tried on the Sun site didn't work.
>
> Today, when I tried the link from the Stanton-Finley site, Sun didn't
> redirect me to the latest, but stayed at the release number the link was
> intended for (1.5.x).  It's now jre1.5.0_10 instead of jre1.5.0_8, so
> the paths in the examples to copy and paste need correcting.  That done,
> it worked, but the test page wants to install a JRE plug in, even though
> it's apparently working, and tells me I'm using an old version.  The
> games apparently work (not that *I* can play them).

    *I think I made the necessary changes to a procedure** by Paul
    Howarth that** I found,*
    *without success.*

    *I then tried the procedure described on the Sun page which offers
    1.5.09 instead of 10*
    *and that's no go also, I get a huge list of dependency failures,
    normally I would work my*
    *way through the list but I had no success finding them so far?  So
    I will try the various *
    *suggestions I've received this morning.  I haven't bothered with
    Java since FC4 but in this
    case my grandson had a game **he wanted his father to try on his new
    Linux install. 

    I'm trying to wean them on to FC6.*

    *Thanks, Bob*

>
> Anybody care to make suggestions?  Stick with the old version, solutions
> to make the current version work?  It was the "current" release version
> I tried, not the latest, not yet release-version, version.
>
> * Java test page: <http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml>
>
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