I use fedora i386. After i link the jre plugin file to user's ~/.mozilla/plugins directory, they both work very well. 2010/11/14 Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2 at o2.pl> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:18:24 +0100 > Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2 at o2.pl> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I missed the most posts of the thread so let me say those few words. > > > > First of all I use Java or OpenOffice.org from producers' websites. > > They are always "fresh" and installable in RHEL. > > > > I assume too, that the i386 and amd64 versions work the same way, only > > the lib names can be different. > > > > Thirdly, I cannot say now what method I used lately but either of them > > worked flawlessly. I installed Scientific Linux (CentOS) several times > > without any snags. > > > > So, > > > > 1. The latest Java is attached to the latest OpenOffice.org RPMs. > > http://download.openoffice.org/other.html > > > > 2. Java RPM can be downloaded from Oracle page: > > > http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=www.java.com > > > > test Java: > > http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml > > > > Java directory with Java libs and plugins: > > /usr/java/jre1.6.0_21/lib/amd64 > > > > I use to place OpenOffice.org in /opt directory. Java is installed > > here: /opt/openoffice.org/ure > > > > It must be working as it always worked here. ;-) > > Hi, > > A few words on plugin directories. > > Typical Linux directory /usr/share/mozilla/plugins does not work here. > The right place for plugins in RHEL amd64, as in my 64bit example, is: > /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins. > > I had to find out that because the libnpjp2.so library wasn't placed in > user's ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and what made me so confused > wondering why my Firefox 3.6.11 read the java pages without the > library! :-) > > Summing up - the best way to find out what works or why something > doesn't is a "small step approach" - trying to make use of the latest > libs or apps from developers websites - not from the main repos for our > system releases. > > Regards > > -- > >>> Please do NOT Cc me on Mailing Lists <<< > Przemysław Pawełczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick] > http://pp.blast.pl, pp_o2 at o2.pl > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101114/3bb73ace/attachment-0004.html>