Re: Java Runtime Environment plugin for Firefox

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:03 -0500, Jon Roland wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > Perhaps i386 & x86_64?  APT doesn't do multi-arch.
> 
> No. Selected the i586 version from the Sun site.
> 
> > Is the link the to the JRE in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/?
> 
> Firefox has it's own plugins directory. Only file in it is libnullplugin.so
> 
> Only files in the mozilla plugins directory are
> mozplugger.so
> nphelix.so
> nphelix.xpt

So there's no link to the jre plugin.  As pointed out by Matthew Miller,
putting plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ works for both mozilla and
firefox and gives version independence.

> Message I got from the rpm installer:
> 
>          package jre-1.5.0_04-fcs (which is newer than jre-1.5.0_01-fcs) is 
> already installed
>          package jre-1.5.0_01-fcs is already installed

Looks like you have multiple versions in the RPM database.  I'd do:

# rpm -e --allmatches jre

Then try installing the version you want.

> > Have you tried the Sun Java 1.5 package or looked at the jpackage.org
> > nosrc.rpm approach?
> 
> Went to http://www.jpackage.org/ but don't have a clue what you are talking 
> about.

The link is under the non-free section -
http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=2663

Here's a nice HOWTO:

http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4

Phil