Tim, El Mar 11 Ene 2005 05:02, Tim Nicholson escribió:
The original poster didn't tell us which version of SuSE he uses nor which version of Java. I have installed JDK 1.4.2_06 downloaded from Sun's website on my SuSE 8.2 box, and it goes into /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2.
How very remiss of me :(
No big deal.
SuSE 9.2, as to the version of Java well I have a forest of Java folders/symlinks on my system that came from I know not where but which all seem to end up back at /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2.sun in which the folders 'bin', 'javaws' and 'lib' reside. plugins is noticable by its absence!
As noted by Glenn in his reply to this thread, there is an article in the SuSE Suppport Database at http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/11/wessels_javaplug92.html which will have you install the SuSE package java-1_4_2-sun-plug-in by means of YaST2. If you have performed a standard instalation of 9.2 on your machine, this is probably the best way to resolve your issue. It seems as if the required browser plug-in is simply not installed on your system. That is, the standard installation of the SuSE supplied Java runtime on 9.2 doesn't provide the plug-in required by Mozilla or Firefox!
I have downloaded the 1.5.0_01 from Sun, which indeed does have the plug-ins, but on trying to install it with yast it warns of a conflict with Open Office, so I abandoned the install!
I know there are many people on this list who feel that you break a rpm-based SuSE system by installation of software not packaged explicitly as rpm for your SuSE distro. I don't agree with this point of view, and there is some software I actually prefer to install from source or from a vendor binary distribution. Sun's JDK is one of these. I have always had a good experience downloading Sun's JDK from Sun's website and installing it on my systems. I am currently using the 1.4.2_06 version, because it resolves some serious security issues with the Java runtime. If you decide to install a Sun supplied Java version, be sure to eliminate first the Java currently installed on your system from the SuSE rpm. Then install the Sun supplied JDK (again, 1.4.2_06 recommended). Last, do the symbolic linking as explained before to get the plug-in working in Firefox. Good luck! -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com