Re: How Do I Get the Java Plugin To Work with Firefox and Mozilla

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

 Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

|> Here's what I do. I download the appropriate bin from blackdown.org
|> (although Sun should work fine also).
|>
|> I then run the file in my home directory as a normal user.
|>
|> I then move the entire newly created j2sdk1.4.2 directory to /usr/local.
|>
|> I then change the permissions on the folder:
|> drwxr-xr-x  8 root  staff  4096 2003-12-17 00:13 j2sdk1.4.2
|>
|> I do this in two stages; I chown the directory, recursively, to give
|> every file root.staff ownership; I then chmod only the directory to
|> the above perms.
|>
|> I then do the symlink:

This didn't work for me completely until I added:

 /usr/local/java/bin

to users' PATH (/usr/local/java being a link to /usr/local/j2re1.4.2_05),

Jim