-------- 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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