-------- Original Message -------- From: Bob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue 18 Dec 2007 16:28:29 EST
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 02:33:48 am Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: >> Timothy Cahill 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 >> 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: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> > 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
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