Installing Java on Mandriva Firefox 1.0.4 ?

tomb6 · 07-11-2005, 10:09 PM

Has anyone sucessfully installed java to firefox v1.0.4 (upgraded from firefox 1.0.2 prior trying java install) ?
I've followed the instructions on Sun's download page to no avail.
Please be specific in your response...noob here.

Falo · 07-12-2005, 01:00 AM

make a link in the plugin dir of your firefox installation dir.

for example:
"cd /path/to/firefox/install/dir/plugin"
"ln -s /path/to/java/dir/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ."

then restart firefox. In the address bar type: "about:plugins"
Do you see anything about Java there?

floppywhopper · 07-12-2005, 01:06 AM

Book mark this site
http://rpm.pbone.net/
it is very handy

here is the RPM for J2RE 1.5 for Mandrake 10.1
it is likely to be a fairly big file to download
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

basically download the file to a folder
add that folder to RPM thingy in MCC media manager
add the RPM using MCC install programme

hope this helps
floppy

tomb6 · 07-16-2005, 10:59 AM

Thanks too both of you for your replies.
Floppywhopper he RPM at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/sta...l.i586.rpm.html
worked for me.

And Falo your suggestion to check about

lugins is a useful tip.