Hello. I am very new to Linux, and I got myself Fedora 15(Gnome shell), updated to the latest kernel.

Here is my problem. I have Java installed, the newest version, but non of the browsers(Opera, GChrome, M. FF) I have know it is there and installed on my machine -- as in, it's not in their plugins section.

So, what's going on? Why is it like that?

Welcome to LQ.

1) su
2) yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#java
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

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So, is it okay if I installed that along with my ordinary Java?
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Okay, I get that icedtea pack. Some of the Java works, but some of them don't. They are grey'd out. Just a blank grey screen.

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Okay, now I get it why. LINK. I need to have the proprietary version of Java, not the one given by the distro.

# rm /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/IcedTeaPlugin.so
# yum remove java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin


These are the packages I use for Fedora, CentOS : jdk-1.6.0_26-fcs
i586 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...6-fcs.i586.rpm
x86_64 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...fcs.x86_64.rpm

Setting up the new java like : 1) su
2)
/usr/sbin/alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26/bin/java 2

3) /usr/sbin/alternatives --config java
.. And select the "sun jdk6".

The plugin :
cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ ( Or cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/.)
# ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
( For "i386" # ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ).

Test page http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp

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