[CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

Thu Jan 28 16:56:18 UTC 2010
Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com>

No, that isn't true at all...

Under both Fedora 12 and RHEL 5.4 I am using the 64 bit JDK...  To get the 
Java plugin working, all I had to do -with the Sun JDK- was

cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/latest/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

And restart Firefox...

Of course, in this instance /usr/java/latest is a sym link to 
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16

It works just fine for me...  I'm sure I'd have similar results on CentOS 
:)


On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:44:52 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Does there exist *anywhere* a Java web browser plugin for 64-bit
>>> FireFox?  The SUN 1.6<mumble> JDK (jdk-6u18-linux-amd64.rpm) does NOT
>>> include the Java web browser plugin library.
>>> java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm does not have one
>>> either.  Should I install the *32-bit* SUN 1.6<mumble> JDK and use the
>>> 32-64 bit wrapper?  I've searched the web and read the wiki (which only
>>> shows installing the 32-bit Java web browser plugin).
>>
>> AFAIK, they stopped doing the plugin sometime last year, and the *only*
>> workaround I've seen is to install Sun's Java.
>
> But Sun's Java does NOT include the plugin in the *64-bit* JDK.  There
> is only the *32-bit* plugin in the *32-bit* JDK. So installing Sun's
> Java is not an answer.
>
>>
>>        mark
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