Re: java plugin for firefox

[Julien Tailleur <tailleur@pmmh.espci.fr>]

Julien Tailleur a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> under my old 32 bit AMD, I was running debian and had no trouble to 
> use the java runtime environment plugin for  firefox. I had downloaded 
> and installed the .bin from blackdown and made the sym link
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugin/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> /usr/local/.../libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> I tryed to follow the same protocol with my new amd64 system (both for 
> sun java and blackdown java), but without success:
>
> ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 40 2005-03-16 08:26 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
> /usr/local/jre1.5.0/lib/amd64/libjava.so


The link was of course not directed to the "right" file. There is no 
"plugin" directory in sun java 1.5.0, so I installed blackdown java, 
wondering wether I  had just made the same mistake. It seems I had since 
the plugin is working perfectly...

Julien