Need Help Installing Java plugin on mozilla firefox browser
 

Hi All,

I am trying to install java plugin mozilla firefox browser, i installed the java and i given link the plugin in plugin direcotry to java plugin folder. when i am start that i am getting one error. please help me out this issue?

/usr/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_nscp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks,
Srikanth

Re: Need Help Installing Java plugin on mozilla firefox browser
 

Hi,

You cannot symlink to the "folder", you must symlink to the correct file in the JRE directory. For my FC3 system, to get the Java plugin working in firefox, I installed firefox, then changed to the plugins/ directory, and did

ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so

After restarting FireFox, I had the Java plugin working. I notice you seem to point to the ncp plugin, which is for Netscape Java support, is it not?

As far as I know, to get Java support in firefox, you must symlink to the file as show above in your Firefox install's plugins/ directory.

BTW - I still have the 1.4 version of the JRE, if you have the new 1.5 version this might be different...

Regards,

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I have done same thing, after that only i am getting that error. Here my case i have installed Java 1.5 version. I have also FC3
. Is the version is the problem?

Thanks,
Srikanth

i loved to helped but i'm a newbie myself. however i watched my colleague installed that plugin yesterday but he did it really quick. from peeping, i thought i saw folder 'plugins' and not plugin for your directory.

Here's the Mozilla Firefox link with its take on how to install the Java plugin: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#q2.2 .

Seems like you're on the right track. Just enure your directory and file names are correct when trying to setup your symbolic link.

Might be - but unlikely. I know though that for me the 1.4 version works just fine with Firefox. Anybody else in here using FF with JRE 1.5?

i am and it works fine.

I'm currently using jre1.5.0_05 with Firefox 1.07. Works like a charm.