Problem with Firefox and Java Runtime

[Michael R. Head]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:57 +0000, Sean Rima wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:09:06 +0000, "Michele" <m.zarri at gmail.com> said:
> > On 12/21/07, Sean Rima <sean at rima.ws> wrote:
> > >
> > > Discovered in there was a broken symlink in the lib/mozilla-firefox
> > > directory for the java plugin. Sort that and working again :)
> > >
> > I have the same problem with Java and Firefox. At the moment I do not
> > have
> > access to my box, so maybe the previous suggestions will solve my issue,
> > but
> > just in case, can you elaborate on how you sorted out the issue? I am not
> > a
> > noob if you consider the time I have used linux, but I am not very much
> > into
> > hacking and just reading "broken symlink" scare the hell out of me :-)
> > 
> 
> LOL yeah sounds scarey. All I did was in the ~/.mozilla/plugins
> directory I did:
> 
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin_oji_mozilla_firefox.so
> libjavaplugin_oji.so

I think you could do:
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
or
sudo update-java-alternatives -a

mike

> Think I did not even have to restart Firefox
> 
> Sean
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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