Firefox and Java

[Clayton Anderson]

gary hypes wrote:
> Visiting some games websites (yahoo! games, Pogo) I got messages
> saying that I wasn't java-enabled. I downloaded the jre 1.5.0.2
> package and installed it, but ... it appears that it installed in it
> my user directory rather than the expected location (/usr/java). I've
> tried moving the files to the /usr/java directory, but it tells me I
> don't have permission, despite giving the file full read/write/execute
> permissions.  So...
> 
> (1) How do I get java to the right location(s)?
> (2) How do I get Firefox to recognize I have java enabled?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Hypes
Gary,

See this guide:

http://ubuntuguide.org/#jre

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Clayton