>> Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Lanny Marcus wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Clint Dilks <clintd at scms.waikato.ac.nz> >>> wrote: >>>>> I have some pb for running java on my system with Firefox 3.0.12 >>>>> System centos 5.3 - kernel 2.6.18-128 x86_64 >>>>> >>>>> When I tested my java config on >>>>> http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 >>>>> <http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1> I >>>>> have always the message that plugin missed : Java Runtime >>>>> Environnemtn >>>>> is not present. >>>>> >>>>> What I need to do for implemented full java in firefox ? >>> <snip> >>>> If you have sun java 1.6 .* installed on a 32 Bit system you need to >>>> create a link from libjavaplugin_oji.so to one of your plugin >>>> directories such as /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Once this is done you >>>> should see something similar to the following in about:plugins >>>> >>>> Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10-b33 >>>> >>>> File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so >>>> Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_10 >>>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> I want to resurrect this thread..... Some time ago, I got the JRE, but >>> had the same problem as the OP. This box is CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) >>> fully updated. Firefox 3.04.14. I have jre1.6.0_13 installed. In >>> usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when I make the link, as the root user, the >>> permissions seem to be the same as for the link for libflashplayer.so >>> but when I go back to my regular user account and launch Mozilla >>> Firefox, it crashes. Is that because I had the java.com site open in >>> the browser, before making the link as the root user? I removed the >>> link, temporarily. What do I need to do, to make the link work >>> properly? TIA! >> >> Gee, flashplayer.... >> >> I reported a bug to the firefox team early last week. *Every* time I >> tried to >> use flash under either 3.0.14 or 3.5.3, firefox crashed. Hard. >> >> They *finally* found the bug: there's an undocumented dependency on >> libcurl, so >> if you install the curl rpm (both, if you're running 64-bit), it'll >> work. > > Mark: Thank you. I am running CentOS 5.3 32 bit. Do I need to yum > install libcurl or libcurl and curl? TIA! Lanny yum install curl (or update curl). The curl package includes libcurl. And I'm on 5.3 32 bit at home (where I tried it first), and 64 bit at work. Oh, and if you're interested, it was Bug 515672. mark