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OK, this one has me stumped. I have tried in vain to install a working
J2RE plugin for Firefox under Fedora FC3 Linux. I have tried:

-The Blackdown version
-The IBM version
-The Sun Version 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_06, and 1.5 as JRE
-The Sun Version as JDK

I make the .bin executable, unpack the RPM, run the RPM, create the
simlink in the Firefox plugins folder, create the java.sh, and when I
do aboutlugins in Firefox, I can see all the java plugins. But when I
access a site with an Applet, Firefox implodes. This happens when I do
the same thing for the Mozilla browser.

I've googled this thing backwards and forwards, checked all the Linux
forums, and there are a lot of people with the same problem. None of
the solutions offered have worked for me.

Suggestions?

THANKS!

Oh, and if this is more suitable to another group (or if my crosspost
is blatantly inappropriate), please let me know!

avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
> OK, this one has me stumped. I have tried in vain to install a
> working J2RE plugin for Firefox under Fedora FC3 Linux. I have tried:
>
>
> -The Blackdown version -The IBM version -The Sun Version 1.4.2_03,
> 1.4.2_06, and 1.5 as JRE -The Sun Version as JDK
>
> I make the .bin executable, unpack the RPM, run the RPM, create the
> simlink in the Firefox plugins folder, create the java.sh, and when I
> do aboutlugins in Firefox, I can see all the java plugins. But
> when I access a site with an Applet, Firefox implodes. This happens
> when I do the same thing for the Mozilla browser.
>
> I've googled this thing backwards and forwards, checked all the Linux
> forums, and there are a lot of people with the same problem. None of
> the solutions offered have worked for me.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Oh, and if this is more suitable to another group (or if my crosspost
> is blatantly inappropriate), please let me know!
>
Try using the mozilla-j2re package. It works fine for me. It is
available at Dag Wieers site.

Here's what I finally did, after about 13 hours of tinkering, and it
worked:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html

---quote---
Mozilla 1.4 and later, and Mozilla Firefox, are compiled with gcc 3.x.
A gcc 3.x compatible version of the Java plugin must be used. JRE 1.4.2
and later contain a compatible plugin.

If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to
install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following:

Open a terminal
Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory
Issue the following command: ln -s
/usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
If you install your JRE in a different way (self extracting package,
debian package, etc), libjavaplugin_oji.so will quite likely be in a
different location. Do not just blindly use the command listed above!

In JRE 1.4.2, this file was in plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32
---unquote---

JRE 1.4.2 did not work for me. JRE RPM 5.0 update 1 did. Also, I had
been simlinking the 5.0 version to the old path for
libjavaplugin_oji.so. The above instructions worked for me perfectly.

avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
> OK, this one has me stumped. I have tried in vain to install a
working
> J2RE plugin for Firefox under Fedora FC3 Linux. I have tried:
>
> -The Blackdown version
> -The IBM version
> -The Sun Version 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_06, and 1.5 as JRE
> -The Sun Version as JDK
>
> I make the .bin executable, unpack the RPM, run the RPM, create the
> simlink in the Firefox plugins folder, create the java.sh, and when I
> do aboutlugins in Firefox, I can see all the java plugins. But when
I
> access a site with an Applet, Firefox implodes. This happens when I
do
> the same thing for the Mozilla browser.
>
> I've googled this thing backwards and forwards, checked all the Linux
> forums, and there are a lot of people with the same problem. None of
> the solutions offered have worked for me.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Oh, and if this is more suitable to another group (or if my crosspost
> is blatantly inappropriate), please let me know!

I'm in the exact same boat with this - I got java working (I use it on
Azureus) but it refuses to boogie with Firefox....

avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
> OK, this one has me stumped. I have tried in vain to install a working
> J2RE plugin for Firefox under Fedora FC3 Linux. I have tried:
>
> -The Blackdown version
> -The IBM version
> -The Sun Version 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_06, and 1.5 as JRE
> -The Sun Version as JDK
>
> I make the .bin executable, unpack the RPM, run the RPM, create the
> simlink in the Firefox plugins folder, create the java.sh, and when I
> do aboutlugins in Firefox, I can see all the java plugins. But when I
> access a site with an Applet, Firefox implodes. This happens when I do
> the same thing for the Mozilla browser.
>
> I've googled this thing backwards and forwards, checked all the Linux
> forums, and there are a lot of people with the same problem. None of
> the solutions offered have worked for me.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> THANKS!
>
> Oh, and if this is more suitable to another group (or if my crosspost
> is blatantly inappropriate), please let me know!
>

avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
> Here's what I finally did, after about 13 hours of tinkering, and it
> worked:
>
> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html
>
> ---quote---
> Mozilla 1.4 and later, and Mozilla Firefox, are compiled with gcc 3.x.
> A gcc 3.x compatible version of the Java plugin must be used. JRE 1.4.2
> and later contain a compatible plugin.
>
> If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is
> /usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to
> install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following:


The README that comes with the package tells you to do just what you did

avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
> Here's what I finally did, after about 13 hours of tinkering, and it
> worked:
>
> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html
>
> ---quote---
> Mozilla 1.4 and later, and Mozilla Firefox, are compiled with gcc 3.x.
> A gcc 3.x compatible version of the Java plugin must be used. JRE 1.4.2
> and later contain a compatible plugin.
>
> If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is
> /usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to
> install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following:
>
> Open a terminal
> Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory
> Issue the following command: ln -s
> /usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> If you install your JRE in a different way (self extracting package,
> debian package, etc), libjavaplugin_oji.so will quite likely be in a
> different location. Do not just blindly use the command listed above!
>
> In JRE 1.4.2, this file was in plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32
> ---unquote---
>
> JRE 1.4.2 did not work for me. JRE RPM 5.0 update 1 did. Also, I had
> been simlinking the 5.0 version to the old path for
> libjavaplugin_oji.so. The above instructions worked for me perfectly.

I've had both work with Firefox. The important part is making sure that
you create a symbolic link to the correct libjavaplugin_oji.so file. On
my system I create this symbolic link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, so
that way I don't have to recreate it if I install an never version of
Firefox or Mozilla.

Alan

> avi-j@pacbell.net wrote:
>
>>OK, this one has me stumped. I have tried in vain to install a
>
> working
>
>>J2RE plugin for Firefox under Fedora FC3 Linux. I have tried:
>>
>>-The Blackdown version
>>-The IBM version
>>-The Sun Version 1.4.2_03, 1.4.2_06, and 1.5 as JRE
>>-The Sun Version as JDK
>>
>>I make the .bin executable, unpack the RPM, run the RPM, create the
>>simlink in the Firefox plugins folder, create the java.sh, and when I
>>do aboutlugins in Firefox, I can see all the java plugins. But when
>
> I
>
>>access a site with an Applet, Firefox implodes. This happens when I
>
> do
>
>>the same thing for the Mozilla browser.
>>
>>I've googled this thing backwards and forwards, checked all the Linux
>>forums, and there are a lot of people with the same problem. None of
>>the solutions offered have worked for me.
>>
>>Suggestions?
>>
>>THANKS!
>>
>>Oh, and if this is more suitable to another group (or if my crosspost
>>is blatantly inappropriate), please let me know!

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Rafferty
<stephen.rafferty@orange.net> wrote:

>I'm in the exact same boat with this - I got java working (I use it on
>Azureus) but it refuses to boogie with Firefox....

Ditto here. No java support with firefox and fedora core 3.

I had the same problem and here is how I fixed it.

Instead of copying the *.so file directly into your firefox plugin
directory, make a symbolic link to it from the firefox plugin
directory.

For example, something like this, with the appropriate directory names:
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

General case:
ln -s <java-installation-directory>/libjavaplugin_oji.so <firefox-plugin-direcrotory>/libjavaplugin_oji.so

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, nope wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Rafferty
> <stephen.rafferty@orange.net> wrote:
>
> >I'm in the exact same boat with this - I got java working (I use it on
> >Azureus) but it refuses to boogie with Firefox....
>
> Ditto here. No java support with firefox and fedora core 3.
>

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:31:42 -0600, nope wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Rafferty
> <stephen.rafferty@orange.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm in the exact same boat with this - I got java working (I use it on
>>Azureus) but it refuses to boogie with Firefox....
>
> Ditto here. No java support with firefox and fedora core 3.

This worked for me:
Get Java at:
http://java.sun.com/

then:
cd /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/plugins/
ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .