-------- Original Message -------- From: Bob S <911@sanctum.com> Date: Tue 18 Dec 2007 16:28:29 EST
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 02:33:48 am Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
On November 26, 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Hmm, that's not surprising. Every Firefox release works that way. What you got from ftp.mozilla.org is a 32bit build of Firefox and that together with the 32bit Java plugin always worked. Perhaps not suprising to some. However, I've been looking for a documented method to get firefox working with Java on my 64-bit PC for a week now, and after figuring it out, I assumed someone might appreciate seeing the steps I used to get it working. If this is documented somewhere clearly, that would be nice. It's pretty simple: Install MozillaFirefox, java-1_5_0-sun-plugin and java-1_5_0-sun in
Timothy Cahill wrote: their 32bit versions from openSUSE and all is working automatically.
Wolfgang
Hello,
Just about two weeks late on this.. Hope somebody will see it.
I am also trying to get Java working on my 64 bit Firefox on 10.3 (MozillaFirefox-2.0.0.11-1.5) I also have java-1.5.0 and java-1.6.0 installed. Don't know if they are 32 bit or not. They have many many files scattered everywhere. eg: bob@Easystreet:~> whereis java java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/lib64/java /usr/bin/X11/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz bob@Easystreet:~> But there is no /java directory in either /usr or /usr/local
Now, I attempt to install the plugin but I am offered different varieties of 1.5.0 and 1.6.0 in i586 or x86_64. Don't know which I need.
Not knowing what to do I went to the java site and downloaded the jre-6u3-linux-amd64.rpm but did not install it because the install instructions say it should be installed in /usr/java or /usr/local/java, neither of which I have. And, I don't want to scatter more unknown java files throughout my system..
Should I uninstall the two javas that I have and start over fresh? Hope somebody will straighten out my confusion here.
Bob S
I have almost the same problem as Bob. I have searched for solutions and tried most without success. Any suggestions (short of a complete reinstall) would be appreciated. Dave