Hi all,

I have an issue with getting JRE plugin detected in Firefox.

System setup:
RHEL 4 i386 with 32 bit Firefox present in
/usr/lib/firefox
There is no 64 bit Firefox.

Steps taken:
1) Downloaded the Linux RPM (self extracting file) from
java.com website to my default download location which is /home/nivi/Desktop.
(I did not download the ones with "64" in it. So I am assuming that what I've downloaded is the 32 bit one).

2)$su -

3)#cp /home/nivi/Desktop/<the self extracting rpm file which i have downloaded> /usr/java

4)#cd /usr/java

5)#chmod a+x <the self extracting rpm>

6)#./<the self extracting rpm>
and accepted the license agreement.

7) To confirm,

#pwd
/usr/java
# ls -ltr
total 37812
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 12 09:24 default -> /usr/java/latest
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 12 09:24 jre1.6.0_05
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19455348 Feb 22 17:11 jre-6u5-linux-i586.rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19207812 Mar 12 09:23 jre-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 12 09:24 latest -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05


#cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

9)#ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

10)To confirm,
# cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
# ls -ltr
total 20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19160 Feb 2 11:17 libnullplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 16:53 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

11)Ensured "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript" are checked in Edit -> Preferences -> Content

12)Restarted Firefox.

No go. JRE is not installed there.
Also, aboutlugins in Firefox does not show Java Plugin as loaded.

Please help.

Also, I am not sure if getting JRE to work with Firefox has got anything to do with JDK. Or are the two unrelated?

Thanks.

You want

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.

I think that's what I got there.

From the directory /usr/lib/firefox/plugins, i type ls -l to get this:

# ls -l
total 20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 16:53 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19160 Feb 2 11:17 libnullplugin.so

Sorry for the typo in the first post.

Please help.

Maybe you need to create the symlink in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, according to this faq.

Regards

Thanks bathory.

But i have that one too.

# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 16:53 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Maybe you need the compat-libstdc++ libraries and remove nspluginwrapper. See this post for more info.

Regards

Thank you.

I need some time to try that out. Once i do so, i will let u know how it went.

Thanks again for taking time to help me out.

Hi bathory,

I tried out the solution you gave me and it worked!!!

I installed both
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm
and
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm

There was no nspluginwrapper installed, and hence no question of removing it.

Followed the normal steps to install java. It worked and Firefox detects java.

Thanks again and sorry for the delay in getting back.

Regards,
Nivedhitha