On Jan 3, 2008 7:49 AM, <jfweber@gilweber.com> 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:

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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.

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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(

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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.

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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)

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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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org