Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Martin Marcher wrote:
> > Hi Martin
> >
> > Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install.
> >
> > However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still
> > doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you
> > have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ?
>
> forgetting everytime that gmail doesn't handle mailing lists well.
>
> make a symlink from your JRE_HOME (in your case the same as java home)
> to you mozilla plugins directory
>
> e.g ln -s $JAVA_HOME/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> ~/.mozilla/<profile>/plugins
>
> paths may differ but in general that's the manual way how to do that.
> Also I suggest that you make a symlink something like
>
> ln -s ~/actual_java_version ~/java
>
> this way you will have a stable JAVA_HOME and just need to replace the
> symlink ~/java points to everything else will follow automagically
> then (which was the case when i was using linux as a desktop system on
> all the boxes i used, so it seems quite stable)
Hi

Apologies if this sounds really dumb, but I can't track down where 
sun-java6-jre was installed, so can't really make any symlinks until I 
track it down.

Thanks

A

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