Re: Help installing Java

From: N. James Bridge (james_at_xmas.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/30/05

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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:11:17 +0100

    On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 17:32 +0200, Uno Engborg wrote:
    > Neal Wilkinson wrote:
    >
    > >I installed Java (jre1.5.0_04) and then went to
    > >the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.8/plugins directory and did a ln
    > >-s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
    > >and the link was created. When I try and run a Java app though it says
    > >the plugin is not installed. Java is enabled in the browser as well.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > Strange, that should work.
    >
    > Does it help to set environment variables like
    > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/
    > or
    > JRE_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/
    >
    > is it the right java that is in your PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH or
    > /etc/ld.so.conf
    > file
    >
    > Regards
    > Uno Engborgs
    >
    Another possibility - did you perhaps put a space after "ns7"? The
    instructions on the sun site put a line break at this point, so it is
    easy to misread. I did, and got a link called libjavaplugin_oji.so in
    the root directory, pointing at the ns7 folder. It didn't work,
    obviously. With the correct link, everything worked as expected.

    I know we are advised not to use the sun java. I have also read that
    there are conflicts with names which can cause java to get uninstalled.
    But is this such a big deal for someone who does not want to do
    development and can easily reinstall the jre package? Or are there other
    problems? I await issue 3 of Fedora weekly news with interest!

    James 

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