Problem getting java plugin registered in Firefox

mski35 · 11-15-2008, 10:49 AM

Hi all, first time post! Here is my delemma. I'm running fedora 9 on my HP nc8430 laptop and the initial install comes with Openjdk and was working well for most applications however there were a few I was having an problem with. So I downloaded Sun jre 1.6.0_10 and used alternatives to create/manage the sym links and everything seemed to go fine. I went to the sun page to test java it says its not properly installed and when I go to my java based application it doesn't open properly either. The other problem I noticed is when I looked at about

lugins on firefox (3.0.2) I only have my vmware plugins listed and nothing else.

Here is the output of java -version:

Code:

[root@mkop-lt ~]# java -version
java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode)

Java info:

Code:

[root@mkop-lt java]# ll
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 2008-11-11 14:49 default -> /usr/java/latest
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-11-11 14:49 jre1.6.0_10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 2008-11-11 14:49 latest -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_10
[root@mkop-lt java]# pwd
/usr/java

Location of plugins and contents of plugins:

Code:

[root@mkop-lt plugins]# pwd
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[root@mkop-lt plugins]# ll
total 608
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     39 2008-11-14 21:12 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     34 2008-10-25 00:16 libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  72832 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-basic-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    167 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  98188 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-complex-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3227 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  85844 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-cone-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1255 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-cone-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104116 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4312 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  78328 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-mully-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1213 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  93964 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2211 2008-09-24 02:28 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26764 2008-02-06 16:20 mozplugger.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     27 2008-10-25 02:01 npica.so -> /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so

Based on my plugins directory, I would imagine I should see alot more plugins loaded.

Any help or pointers is much appreciated.

pixellany · 11-16-2008, 04:00 AM

Why do you need to use /etc/alternatives? I would make the symlink directly to the java folder, eg:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jul 8 18:59 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

mski35 · 11-17-2008, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pixellany

Why do you need to use /etc/alternatives? I would make the symlink directly to the java folder, eg:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Jul 8 18:59 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Thanks for the reply pixellany. I followed your instruction and removed the alternatives sym link and added:

Code:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so

Next I closed and relaunched firefox from my desktop shortcut. I ran about: plugins but still didn't see my list of plugins or the java plugin that was listed in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. I then checked the java control panel and noticed under the advanced tab, command to launch the default browser pointed to /usr/bin/firefox. I then tried running /usr/bin/firefox from the konsole, and ran about: plugins and saw all the listed plugins! I checked my KDE shortcut and found it was pointing to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/firefox. I changed it to point to /usr/bin/firefox and all is now working!

I hate when I do stupid things but happy when I find and correct them.