[CentOS] Firefox and Java on CentOS 4.1
Jeffrey D. Means
meaje at meanspc.com
Fri Aug 12 19:26:56 UTC 2005
I'll seccond thios how hard would it really be to set this functionality
in the rpm to migrate user setting over when upgrading ff/moz?
--Jeff
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:25 +0100, John Logsdon wrote:
> Thanks to all that helped. It was of course the lack of a symlink since
> the new firefox was in a different directory.
>
> It does make you wonder, though, what mozilla think they are doing.
> Googling around there are many cases of people falling foul of the same
> thing - perhaps I should have surfed before shouting.
>
> Given all that has gone into moz/FF, enabling the plugin installer to
>
> (a) inherit/replicate any old links when updating,
>
> (b) search for common locations eg /usr/java,
>
> (c) add a browse facility rather than jumping off to sun's site which is
> not really appropriate and
>
> (d) set up the symlink within the gui
>
> really cannot be all that difficult.
>
> If we want Linux to succeed as a desktop competitor to Redmondware, FF
> should make it easier to install plugins and include them when making an
> upgrade.
>
> It may be alright on a Windows platform but installing plugins either in
> FF or mozilla - or I guess netscape - is a mess.
>
> Bill must be laughing all the way to the next charity ball - bless him.
>
> John
>
> John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
> Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"
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>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Maciej ¯enczykowski wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest making sure you have a link to the java plugin in the proper
> > directory, in my case (running mozilla with an old beta 1.5 java SDK - but
> > it should be much the same for firefox (which uses mozilla/plugins
> > directory if I'm not mistaken) and any newer java version)...
> >
> > ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Jun 6 2004 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
> > /usr/java/jdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> >
> > Cheers,
> > MaZe.
> >
> > On Fri, 12
> > Aug
> > 2005, John
> > Logsdon wrote:
> >
> > > I need to run a Java-enabled Firefox on my CentOS4.1-powered laptop and it
> > > *was* running fine. Then yesterday I up2date'd the box and Firefox went
> > > from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6. And I lost Java.
> > >
> > > I can't seem to re-install it, whether from the original (1.5.0 I think it
> > > was) or the latest downloads.
> > >
> > > This is crucially important as I need to access my Dell RAC.
> > >
> > > Can anyone advise how to get Java back. At the moment, I have had to
> > > reboot my laptop into Redmond-ware :-(((
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > > John Logsdon "Try to make things as simple
> > > Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester UK as possible but not simpler"
> > > j.logsdon at quantex-research.com a.einstein at relativity.org
> > > +44(0)161 445 4951/G:+44(0)7717758675 www.quantex-research.com
> > >
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