Dave Gutteridge wrote: >Hot on the heels of the success of getting sound to work with FireFox, I >am on to getting Java applets to run. > >When I go to a page with a Java applet, I get the little Rubik's cube- >like icon that says I can click to download. So I do, but FireFox says >it can't find it, so I have to install manually. > >I click on Manual install and I'm taken to a page that allows me to >download the RPM within a ".bin" file. That's new to me, but I'm game. I >download it and follow the install instructions. It makes me create >a /usr/java directory, and open the .bin file there. > >I have to go through a whole license text file, but in the end it says >it's installed. > >I check in the directory, and there's a jre directory and an RPM file. I >wonder why the RPM file is there if it's already installed. I try to >install using RPM, and it says it's already installed, so I decide I >believe it. > >I re-open FireFox... and going to the same web page I was at before with >the Java applet, I'm presented with the same screen saying I need to >install the plug in. > >What am I doing wrong with the installation? > > >Dave > > I just dealt w/ this this A.M. w/ SuSE 8.2 :-). I think you need to put a soft-link in your mozilla plugins directory as such: (cd /opt/mozilla/plugins/; ln -s /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so javaplugin_oji.so) You need to be root to do this. If CentOS installs the Java Runtime Environment (jre) in a different place (other than /usr/lib/java, apparently /usr/java for you), use that path instead of the one I gave you. I got this info from the mozilla website. YMMV & all that. -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!