I did that. Downloaded ran pkgtool and it acted like it installed but still does not seem like its working.
But when I do which java I get this..... /usr/lib/java/bin/java

Hang in there; you'll get java working.
Do all this as root.

run this command it should list some version of java.

If it doesn't ok. If it does please remove it with Download this http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s..._09-i586-1.tgz

Now run this command
Now remove a possible bad symlink
Now as Spinlock said do this
And run ldconfig again for the heck of it.

Restart firefox and see if it works now (about:plugins)

I followed those instructions exactly and things went fine until I did:

ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

I got no such file or directory so I changed the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins line to point to where my firefox is installed and it created a libjavaplugin file but it has a lock on the icon. If that is locked than that means I cant use it as a user right?

the lock means either you don't have access or its a dead link.
ok type this to find out where the devil it is.

After doing " find / | grep libjavaplugin_oji.so " I get.........


/home/redguard/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.mozilla/plugins/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.mozilla/plugins/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji .so
/home/redguard/downloads/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/downloads/jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/downloads/jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/info/libjavaplugin_oji.so..trashinfo
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/info/libjavaplugin_oji.so.trashinfo
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/libjavaplugin_oji.so.
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jre1_1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jre1_1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/home/redguard/.local/share/Trash/files/jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.

Just a shot in the dark here but did you run ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ as root?

Dozens of times and using many different locations........
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
/usr/lib/.mozilla/plugins/
/home/myhome/.mozilla/plugins
ETC....

QUESTION....Would Java not installing have anything to do with KDE being in a custom location or does KDE have nothing to do with it?

No, KDE has nothing to do with it.

I don't know, something is not right here. Double check the "firefox" symlink in the usr/lib directory to make sure where it's really pointing. You did say you installed FF2.0 right? (too lazy to go back to original post). Make sure it points to the new one. You can also edit the command to ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so


By the way, what is the output of /ls /usr/lib/firefox-2.0/plugins ?

In my case I installed firefox2 from linuxpackages.net. Their install put it in /usr/lib/firefox. I still have my old /usr/lib/firefox-1.5 folder with nothing in it but my old pluggins symlinks.

So, please do a 'ls /usr/lib/firefox*' and see which dir you are really running firefox from. Additionally do a 'whereis firefox' and then 'ls -l path-given-with-previous-command' to help you.

I dont have a /usr/lib/firefox directory of any kind.
I have firefox in /home/myhome/downloads/firefox
when I do whereis firefox it just shows firefox:

One last question, M$ISBS...
We now know where your java plugin is... we need to find out where it goes.

You don't seem to have java or firefox installed anywhere outside your home directory. Did you install them as root?

ok well you can fix this still.

cp -rf /home/myhome/downloads/firefox /usr/lib/firefox-2.0
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-2.0 /usr/lib/firefox
ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Rerun firefox.

I dont think I installed as root, not sure

I tried that Mr_c and still does not work. Im not sure if its even worth it , but I wil l keep messing around with it.
Thanks.