Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3073 mails)

["Chee How Chua" <chuacheehow@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 3, 2008 7:49 AM,  <jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi. I had similar problems but now everything is working OK. See
> comments inserted within your post. Gil
>
>
> On Wed January 2 2008, Chee How Chua scratched these words onto a
> coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using openSUSE 10.3, kernel 2.6.22, Firefox 2.0.0.10, and
> > java-1_5_0-sun-1.5.0_update13-0.5
>
>
> My setup is identical except that I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.11. All of
> this was originally installed about a week ago, then reinstalled
> yesterday. Therein lies the solution, I think.
>
>
> > I have a problem getting Java applets to run in my Firefox.
>
>
> And I had the same problem. Drove me crazy in SuSE 10.0 for more than a
> year, and also drove me crazy when I first installed 10.3 last week. I
> could not run java applets in Firefox. For example, I could not do the
> java speed tests on www.dslreports.com. I got a message telling me that
> I was missing certain java elements necessary to display all items on
> screen. Got a similar message on many other websites.
>
> I went to the java website and downloaded the latest version of java JRE
> and tried to install. Very frustrating.  :o(
>
>
> > There is a symbolic link to the Java plugin for the Firefox browser
> > located in /usr/lib/browser-plugins/javaplugin.so
> > This links to /etc/alternatives/javaplugin which is a symbolic link
> > to
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update13-sr2/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/li
> > bjavaplugin_oji.so This plugin didn't work. Although about:plugins
> > show that the Java installation is working for Firefox, visiting
> > Java's page or any page with a Java applet does not work correctly.
>
>
> I also found that the plugins did not work. I created links all over the
> place. I also copied the libjavaplugin_oji.so into all sorts of places
> within firefox. Nothing worked. Many hours of frustration.
>
>
>
> > So what I did was to create a link
> > /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to the same file as
> > above. about:plugins again showed that the plugin is installed. Once
> > again, I tried the applet in
> > http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp but it is still not
> > working.
>
>
> This applet now works for me. However, I am told that I do not have the
> proper version of Java! I am told to download and install something
> else. Like hell! No way I am going to take a chance screwing up this
> working install.  :o)
>
> > I've googled for help but the results came back with making a
> > symbolic link which I've already done.
> >
> > Does anyone have any advice?
>
>
> OK, this will probably really tick you off, but I suggest reinstalling
> 10.3. When I did this yesterday now all of a sudden those pages that I
> could not see before display perfectly! All the java applets now work.
>
> I cannot explain why this is happening other than to assume that when I
> did the first install of 10.3 I failed to install some file, some
> package that I did get yesterday.
>
> One thing you should check: Be sure that you enable the Community
> Repository named "Main Repository (NON-OSS). It's in the Yast Control
> Center.
>
> That repository has java updates. I suspect maybe I failed to get that
> one the first time, but this time I did, and when I did the first
> online update it may have pulled in a java update that now allows me to
> see all those nice applets that eluded me for over a year.
>
> Hope this helps. Good luck.
> Gil
> (writing from my wife's account)


Thanks for the reply Gil. Unfortunately I can't afford any downtime on
my laptop. I'd rather switch back to Windows to use Java then to do a
re-install that might potentially screw things up (my settings, data I
forgot to backup, etc.). Perhaps I'll try the re-installation when I
have more time to spare.

But I don't know what to tell my friends when I re-install. That in
order to get Java running on Linux, I gotta re-install? This is going
to be embarrassing. I've enough trouble convincing them to switch to
Linux as it is...
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