Cannot get Firefox 1.5 to recognize JRE 1.5 plugin

Cara25 · 05-28-2006, 03:26 AM

I'm using Mandriva 2006

I have Firefox 1.5 up and running and installed in,
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.5/

I have JRE 1.5 installed at,
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01

I have libjavaplugin_oji.so installed at,
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
&
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-1.5/plugins

Firefox has Java and JavaScript enabled at the Edit/Preferences/Content window

I still get a "message bar" at www.cnn.com that plugins are missing, when I check which plugin is missing, Firefox tells me that the Java Run Time plugin is missing.

What have I done wrong ?

dexter11 · 05-28-2006, 04:18 AM

Try linking it to your /home/yourname/.mozilla/plugins directory. The path is not accurate but there is a plugin directory in your /home/.../.mozilla dir.

fingal · 05-28-2006, 06:19 AM

Hello

I used to have this problem as well, but solved it a few months ago. It really is a case of creating symbolic links from your plugins directory to your JRE directory. Because it's a while since I did this I don't remember the precise paths involved but you would need to use the ln command:

ln -s <path to Java runtime environment>

I think there are some hints on the Firefox site to get you going. This is one of those things that can be sorted out once you 'get the picture' rather than an irritating long term problem.

evodawg · 06-06-2006, 10:33 PM

Java should have created a directory in /usr

My file for java
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Link the /libjavaplugin_oji.so to your home directory

/home/evodawg/.mozilla/firefox/firefox/plugins

and your

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

then go and test http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

libjavaplugin_oji.so* is the plugin you want to link to all mozilla and FireFox plugin directories.

evodawg · 06-06-2006, 11:04 PM

the official Java Download and Help site for Linux

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml

polemon · 10-08-2006, 04:04 AM

If you installed the JRE-1_5_0_xx package, you night have two libjavaplugin_oji.so's, like in my case.

I'm running FC5 and I was desperately trying to find the plugin-module, since i didn't know where the RPManager had put it.
Once I found it, I found actually two of them:

/usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so

I'd suggest linking them, one at a time, and testing which one's working best.

--polemon