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Bill Roddy wrote: ------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:52:50 -0700
More newbie questions here.......... Has anyone been able to install JRE for a debian based Linux (ie Ubuntu in my case)? I tried to by taking a Sun provided RPM file and using "alien" to convert it to a "deb" package. It seemed to install, but Firefox wasn't finding it, even when I manually installed symbolic links pointing to JRE binaries in a directory in my $PATH. Having said that, it just may not have worked because of the alien conversion. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug I have Sun's jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin working on Ubuntu, KANOTIX, and Scientific Linux (Red Hat Enterprise 4.1). I use a way of installing that I found works, but may not be the way others do it. Download the .bin file from Sun. Open a terminal. Become root. Drag and drop the jre .bin file onto the terminal. This automatically will put the entire path of the .bin file location into the terminal. Hit enter. Scroll through the Sun agreement by hitting the space bar. You may have to hit the space bar eight or more times to come to the end of their agreement. When asked, type "yes." The .bin file will unpack. When it is finished, you will have a FILE named the same as the .bin file. Make a directory named "java." Drag and drop the new jre directory into the java file. In the manner of your choice (personally, I just log out, become root, and drag and drop the file, then go back to my personal account, in this one case). Put the java file into the /usr file. There must be a shortcut of the file /usr/java/jre1.5.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so placed into the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins file and, for insurance on place into the plugin file in the /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins file (that's the name of the firefox file in Ubuntu). You WILL have java. I can hear the collective moans of Linux purists because I haven't command-lined my way into a java installation, but this way works for me every time and I'm am not a coder, just an old Ham radio operator who lives by the Ham slogan, "If it ain't broke, it ain't no fun." I hope this, or some other, more proper way, works for you. It ALWAYS does for me. Bill P.S. there may be typos in this. I'm sick and had a very bad night.Bill, Sorry you are feeling poorly! I hope you feel better soon! I tried your method, and it works perfectly! I think mine would have worked also, but the key I was missing was the symbolic links you mentioned in your message. Firefox now "sees" the plugin! The only thing I think I miss using your methodology is in administration of JRE as a package (easy removal if it is ever necessary). Perhaps I would never need links in a $PATH directory as I had manually done. Thanks for the help! ----- Paul |
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