[CentOS] Need Java plugin for Firefox in CentOS 5.3

Mon Aug 24 06:30:19 UTC 2009
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

In a highly frustrated moment I wrote:
> Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin
> for Firefox.  Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in
> Firefox earlier this year.  Firefox comes up empty when searching for a
> suitable plugin.  I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the
> following packages installed:
> 
>     firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm
>     java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.i386.rpm
>     java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.i386.rpm

OK, never mind.  I've got jre-1.6.0_05-fcs installed again now, and all
is well.  Now I remember what happened.  Back on Aug. 8,  yum was acting
all wonky and insisted that the java-1.6.0-openjdk update conflicted
with the jre package.  I'm not seeing that conflict any more, and 
jre-1.6.0_05-fcs coexists just fine with java-1.6.0-openjdk.

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