I have downloaded the java on firefox on Madrake 10.0 beta 2 and still cannot get it to work.

Somewhere, someone must have got this to work? In both Mozilla and Firefox I have the plugin in the plugin directory.

I have tried to load other j2re apps and I get the message java command not found and to specify the full path to the Sun JRE java command.

This leads me to believe that my problem is that the rpm loading has not modfied my path to add the java directory.

Anyone, know how to change this as I am not sure how to modify the path, or am I following the wrong track?

You have to specify the path to java in your .bash_profile

Edit the .bash_profile file (is located in your home/your_id directory
$ kwrite .bash_profile

Add the line
/usr/java/j2reversionnumber/bin
to your path.

Also don't forgtet to create symbolic links to the java executables in /usr/bin
# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s /usr/java/j2reversionnumber/bin/* /usr/bin

It should work now, to check

# su to normal user
$ which java

You should get something like

[user@localhost user]$ which java
/usr/bin/java

You say add the line /usr/java/j2reversionnumber/bin

My .bash_profile
So where do i add in that line? Sorry for the beginners question but i'm really sucky in this things

Well, you see that you already have a line that mentions a path.
Simply add another one under the one you already have, like this

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
PATH=$PATH:$/usr/java/j2revisionnumber/bin

and don't forget to substitute the actual revision number of your java environment!!
My path looks like this

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
PATH=$PATH:$/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_03/bin

I've done all these things and still Java is not working


Don't know what to do now

If you type
which java
in a terminal, what does it return?

Also, you say you've got the plugins in your plugin directories for both Mozilla and Firefox?
Which file did you make the symbolic link point to?
Does java work in Mozilla?

not much i think he don't knows the command wich, but i'm tryong to instal a VM not a plugin for mozilla

hmmm, I thought you were trying to get java to work with firefox.
Anyway, go to my tips section, scroll down a little and if you follow the instructions for installing the java VM it should work, I did it countless times and several people have followed these instructions and had it to work.

Open a terminal window and type
$ rpm -qa j2r*
It should return something like
$ rpm -qa j2r*
j2re-1.4.2_03-fcs

If it doesn't return anything you didn't install the j2re rpm or something went wrong during the install.

Uninstall it with
rpm -e j2re-1.4.2_03-fcs (substitute your own revision number here)

And then follow the instructions from my tips section, it should work.

Oké in will try

Ice9 thx man i'm not the easyest person in the world when it comes to Linux but you made linux live a little easyer for me, many many thanks i got java working in no time with your help.



Echt bedankt he (ik merkte dat je belg bent ;-) )

No problemo, glad I could help.

I'm from Belgium yes, but I could be speaking french ....
But I'm not

Anyway, graag gedaan!