On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:51 -0200, Sergio Belkin wrote:

--- El Mié 30 Ene 2008, Ralph Angenendt encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente:

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RA: Sergio Belkin wrote: RA: > Hi! RA: > RA: > I've tried to install java plugin as is in RA: > http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-centos5.1-desktop-p7 but with no RA: > success. RA: > RA: > All steps seems to go well, with no error messages, but Firefox says that RA: > there is no java plugin. RA: RA: Are you using a 64bit version of CentOS? Then it won't work - Sun's java RA: plugin only works on 32bit browsers.

I'm using Centos 64bit, but I have firefox 32bit installed

Are you sure you only have the 32 bit version installed? yelp lists the 64 bit version as a dependency, and the /usr/bin/firefox script checks for the existence of and runs the 64 bit version if it exists.

Does rpm -q firefox only return line with firefox?

Regards Hendrik

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 00:46 -0200, Sergio Belkin wrote:

--- El Vie 01 Feb 2008, Hendrik Strydom encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente:

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HS: On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 23:51 -0200, Sergio Belkin wrote: HS: > --- El Mié 30 Ene 2008, Ralph Angenendt encontró un teclado y tipeó lo HS: > siguiente: HS: > > RA: Sergio Belkin wrote: HS: > > RA: > Hi! HS: > > RA: > HS: > > RA: > I've tried to install java plugin as is in HS: > > RA: > http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-centos5.1-desktop-p7 but HS: >

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with no RA: > success.

HS: > > RA: > HS: > > RA: > All steps seems to go well, with no error messages, but Firefox says HS: > > that RA: > there is no java plugin. HS: > > RA: HS: > > RA: Are you using a 64bit version of CentOS? Then it won't work - Sun's HS: > > java RA: plugin only works on 32bit browsers. HS: > HS: > I'm using Centos 64bit, but I have firefox 32bit installed HS: HS: Are you sure you only have the 32 bit version installed? HS: yelp lists the 64 bit version as a dependency, and the /usr/bin/firefox HS: script checks for the existence of and runs the 64 bit version if it HS: exists. HS: HS: Does HS: rpm -q firefox HS: only return line with firefox?

No Hendrik, I have installed both, but is that a problem?

This depends how you start firefox. The /usr/bin/firefox script will always start the 64 bit version if it is installed. If contains a check that sets MOZ_LIB_DIR to use the 64 bit version:

MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib" if [ -x "/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.12/firefox-bin" ] then MOZ_LIB_DIR="/usr/lib64" fi

You may need to intervene here to use the 32 bit version. A simple check when firefox is running is to do:

$ ps -ef | grep firefox

this will return lines containing either: /usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.12/firefox-bin which is the 64 bit version, or /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.12/firefox-bin which is the 32 bit version. If you edit /usr/bin/firefox directly to prevent it from using the 64 bit version it will work for all users, but you need to redo it with every firefox update. If you copy this to for example /usr/bin/firefox32 you need to manually create a shortcut to start firefox for all affected users. (If you update the original menu entry it may well be replaced with an update - I have not tested this.) I tend to update a shortcut on the panel, which is more convenient to use.

Regards Hendrik