[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

Mon Feb 1 15:09:11 UTC 2010
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Am 28.01.2010 17:46, schrieb Robert Heller:
> At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:17:02 -0800 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org>  wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com>  wrote:
>>> Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit
>>> FireFox?  The SUN 1.6<mumble>  JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm) does NOT
>>> include the Java web browser plugin library.
>>
>> It's been available since jdk-u13.
>>
>> Just link the library
>>
>>     <whatever>./jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
>>
>> to the firefox's plugin directory under /usr/lib64/firefox-<whatever>/plugins.
>>
>> You may have to create the plugins directory.
>
> I did this. The plugin does NOT show up in about:plugins.

I think it's the wrong directory - this is only valid for a certain 
firefox version.

Try this:
# ll /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 14. Apr 2009  libjavaplugin.so -> 
/etc/alternatives/libjavaplugin.so.x86_64

Here the alternatives stuff comes from the redhat packaged jre plugin 
version, you need to modify to where you installed the plugin.

Rainer