Installing Sun JRE plugin in Firefox

[Nils Kassube]

john d. herron wrote:
> The instructions in http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ say:
> "1. Install Java Runtime Environment. "
>     I did, into /usr/local/jre1.6.0_03.
> "2  Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla
> Plugins directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7
> directory of JRE 5.0 or later..."
>     There is a file called 'libjavaplugin_oji.so' in
> /usr/local/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7.
>     It would seem that my Firefox plugins are located in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> What should I do to '/make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins'/ ?

In a terminal type this command:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so \
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

It will not give you an error message if the libjavaplugin_oji.so file is 
not in the given location, so you'd better check for the existance of 
that file first.


Nils