On Sep 22, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
The latest updates to CentOS 5.5 seem to have broken the Java plugin, and have defeated any and all attempts to get it working again. I'm running CentOS 5.5 (32-bit) and Firefox 3.6.9 (installed from the CentOS repository); I've tried BOTH the openJDK plugin available through the Argeo repositories, and installing Java 1.6.0 directly from Sun/Oracle and creating the plugin soft link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Neither works at all.
Thanks to everyone for their help. It turns out that I had two problems: 1) The page that you get redirected to by the Firefox plugin finder links to these (incorrect) install instructions: http://java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml#rpm The correct install instructions can be found at Oracle's website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/install-linux-rpm-137089.html 2) I was using the Argeo-Plus plugin (32-bit), which appears to be broken. Mathieu, if you get it working again, I'd be happy to use it, but if not, I understand. I was aware that the location had changed (serendipitously), and have the latest version (I've since rolled everything to the Oracle/Sun plugin).
Thanks all, -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory