On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 05:08 +0000, Richard Hubbell wrote:
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:00:39 -0800, Gerhard Magnus
<magnus(a)agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> Once I installed the new firefox 1.0.1 I lost the java runtime
> environment I had finally been able to get working with firefox 1.0.
This isn't a fedora question but a firefox question.
But there are so many lists. I have subscribed to more than I know.
It seems nowadays one has to subscribe to a separate list for every package
available. ...I digress...
First, thanks for helping me fix this. Similar problems must come up
frequently in this gray area between open-source linux and software
that's merely free to download. Here we have a common application (the
java runtime environment) that apparently installs and functions
transparently-to-the-user with web browsers running under Windows. But
to get it working with the default browser for Fedora (firefox) requires
this song & dance involving information that's practically buried on the
Sun/Java and Mozilla/Firefox websites. Even going through this
installation a second time (after the latest firefox upgrade) I was
getting nowhere without help.
What is the relationship between Fedora/linux and Sun/java and why does
it seem to be so unfriendly?
Why does installing this plugin have to be done with symbolic links in
the first place?
Did you do this?
cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
To make sure you created the link properly try this:
ls -Ll /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.1/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
ls -Ll /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
(they better be the same size (^: )
Make sure java is enabled under preferences|options.
then /usr/bin/firefox
try it out
http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/webmol.pl
I'm not sure why what I was doing kept creating a bad link but I'll play
around with it (yes, using some file other than libjavaplugin.oji!)
until this is more clear.