Sun JDK 1.6, Java plugin, Firefox?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 11:17:14 UTC 2007


On 1/23/07, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anybody have the Sun 1.6 JDK installed with JPackage and able to
> > get the java plugin to work with Firefox?  If I go to about:plugins it
> > shows installed and enabled but I can't get any applets to run.  I'm
> > using JPackage 1.7b, Sun JDK 1.6 and Firefox 1.5.0.9 on FC 6.
> >
> I installed the 1.6 JRE from java.sun.com - and it works fine.
>
> If you go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
> then under "Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6" click downloads and
> get the Linux bin file.
>
> Once that is untarred you can collect the appropriate plugin files
> and make sure they are in the plugins directory.
> >From wherever your java directory is stored you then need
> java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> in the plugins directory either as the file or a link to the correct file
> in the firefox plugins directory. You will need to restart firefox for it
> to be active.
>
> This is how I do it and it seems to work fine.

And, by the way, where from could one get the equivalent of

java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.10-2jpp.nosrc.rpm

for Java 1.6?

Paul




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