Re: Java Runtime Environment plugin for Firefox

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:57 -0500, Jon Roland wrote: 
> The Java Runtime Environment does not install properly, or is not detected, 
> for Firefox 1.0.4 running under Fedora core 4, which comes with the latest 
> JRE. Firefox is not detecting the plugin, even though it seems to be 
> installed, and after invoking the plugin install page from the page with the 
> "click here to download" icon that says the JRE plugin is missing, the 
> plugin seems to install, but is not detected by Firefox, and I get warning 
> messages during apt-get dist-upgrade that there are two installations of JRE 
> that may be in conflict.

Perhaps i386 & x86_64?  APT doesn't do multi-arch.

> This appears to have been an open issue for some time now, and I would 
> appreciate it if someone would solve it.

Is the link the to the JRE in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/?

> This is Mozilla Bug 250376. Perhaps someone in the repo community has a 
> solution.

Have you tried the Sun Java 1.5 package or looked at the jpackage.org
nosrc.rpm approach?

Phil