Can't get java to work with firefox

[Cliff Pankonien]

I had a lot of trouble with that, but I finally broke the code. Try the 
following:

as root, put jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin in /usr/local
unpack jre so that you will have /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/

find plugins directory, in my case it is in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory, do:
ln -s /usr/local/jre1.5.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 
./libjavaplugin_oji.so
 i tried it many times without the ./libjavaplugin_oji.so, it never 
worked. once i appended the ./libjavaplugin_oji.so it worked fine. (i've 
loaded ubuntu and debian on my desktop and laptop at least ten times 
each over the last few weeks, and the procedure above has worked every 
time. let me know if you still have probs...

cliff


Johnny wrote:

>Hi
>I have sent 3 emails to the ubuntu-users list with no reply so I am
>trying it again.
>I have downloaded the jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin and I did what the
>instructions said  to do and did what mozilla web page said to do by
>cp the java plugins to firefox plugin folder, restarted firefox but
>java still not working with firefox.  What do i need to do next.
>
>Johnny
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