Bryen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:29 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically, I want to see:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHV&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Worked here. I have Blackdown java 1.4.2 installed for my 64 bit browser. AFAIK, it is the only 64 bit java plugin.
Which has always worked in my suse install since 9.0. Why not in 10.3?
What arch? If you run i586, this would not apply.
This webpage works greatly here with 10.3 i586
What I did:
-found that the command "java" did not work anymore, since there was no /usr/bin/java anymore.
Tried with
-Found out that the link /usr/bin/java pointed to /etc/alternatives/java, which in turn pointed to the wrong, not (anymore) existing sun java jre.
Corrected the link manually from pointing to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u2-sun/bin/java, which was not there, anmore to correctly pointing to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u3-sun/bin/java which exists.
and this was it.
Actually sometimes I think windows users are happy campers, since they can continue with their work instead of tracking down this mess.
Kind regards Eberhard
Eberhard... using ll, I can see the broken symlinks you are referring to. For those of us not familiar with how to change symlinks, can you give us the exact commands to use step by step to resolve this?
Thanks,
sure. You are wellcome. Just to warm up: -"java" yields "command not found" -as root "find / -name "java" yields many things java, among them "/usr/bin/java" Now for something real: ls -la /usr/bin/java: .... /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java then ls -la /etc/alternatives/java .../etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u2-sun/bin/java (which does not exist!) go to /etc/alternatives and delete the existing link to the non existing java executable: as root: cd /etc/alternatives rm java create a new link there with the name "java" to the existing java executable. Beforehand, check on your system, whether java is REALLY there, where you want to link to! ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u3-sun/bin/java ./java double check with: ls la java then as ordinary user, check, whether "java" yields a long explanation of all the parameters that you can use with it. ;-)) start firefox enjoy. I hope it will work for you, as well. kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org