On Monday 01 October 2007 14:58:32 Yvonne Everett wrote:
Hi
I've got an application that runs through a web browser. While this works fine through IE I cant get the correct plugin to get it working through Firefox on Linux. The plugin for IE is:
jre-1_5_0-windows-i586.exe
Through Adept (I'm running Kubuntu Edgy) I've searched for "jre" and have selected "sun-java5-jre" to install but this comes back with errors committing changes and doesnt complete.
Any suggestions most welcome!!??
I'm not sure about the Sun Java packages in Ubuntu, but when I need Java on Debian I use the java-package package's tools:
1) Download the Java binary from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ . Find the .bin file for Linux of the latest version of the JDK.
2) $ sudo apt-get install java-package fakeroot
3) $ fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin a) agree to version b) SPACE through the pages of the licence c) type: yes RET to accept it
4) $ sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.6_1.6.0+update2_i386.deb
You may then need to set up the plugin for Firefox manually:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
(or equivalent, depending on where you/Ubuntu keeps things)
Cheers, Richard