Ok so I'm at my university right, and once you open a web browser you're supposed to register your computer. I am running Red Hat 9 and using Firefox. It said "missing plugin" or something. It said I was missing Java, except I had already installed Java previously. But I downloaded the Java they had a link to and installed it k? Well, still no luck. Restarted computer, tried it again, yep you guessed it....no luck. What is going on? I have the freaking Java, and I have it enabled in Firefox. Why does it not work?

You can have it installed and enabled all you want, but it won't take effect until you have a symbolic link to java in your firefox folder.


you'll want do to somthing along the lines of this

0) enable SU or login a root
1) Find libjavaplugin_oji.so
2) Make a symbolic link of this in your /usr/lib/firefox (or mozilla_firefox, whatever)/plugins dir.

HOW I DID IT
:

su
cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
ln-s /usr/lib/jre1.5.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so


there may be a file in your firefox/plugins that is somthing along the lines of libnull.so, feel free to delete that.

I'm sure there are about 100 threads dealing with this here, as it's a pretty common inquery.

Umm that didn't work exactly. It says I don't have Java enabled or installed now. But I have both so I don't know whats going on.