Java Runtime and Java Plugins for Mozilla (Firefox)

Thomas Beckett Thomas.Beckett at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 08:44:37 UTC 2004


The Ubuntu sites FAQ section has a link to the following site for
installing Java:

http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian

I followed these instructions and it works just fine


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:42:52 -0700, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tired following Sun's recipe last night and could not get Java or the
> > plugin working, in fact Firefox would not even start.
> >
> > However this morning I searched the ubuntu site, then the unofficial
> > forums and found  a recipe that while a little inaccurate, did finally
> > allow me to get things working (my goal was to install eclipse platform
> > which I did).
> 
> here is my recipe (for i386 arch) in case anyone is interested:
> 
> How-to install Sun's Java on Ubuntu
> ==================================
> 
> *) goto http://www.java.com
> 
> *) click on the button "get it now"
> 
> *) download and save to disk the "Linux self-extracting file"
> (warning: do not download the the RPM self-extracting file!)
> 
> *) open an xterm, and go to the directory of the file you just
> downloaded (in my case it was named "j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin")
> 
> *) chmod u+x j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin
> 
> *) ./j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin
> 
> *) After reading it, accept the Sun's license (by typing "yes")
> 
> *) sudo mv j2re1.4.2_05  /opt/
> 
> *) to have the command "java" accessible from the command line:
>    -) cd /usr/local/bin/
>    -) sudo ln -s /opt/j2re1.4.2_05/bin/java .
> 
> *) to install the java plugins for firefox
>    -) cd  /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
>    -) sudo ln -s
> /opt/j2re1.4.2_05/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
> 
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