On 04/09/2008 11:49 AM, Frank Charles Gallacher wrote:
Greetings, [...]
Hello.
I need to work out how to install this manually, as it would appear that the aptitude package is out of date. The Install Instructions have a section for configuring JRE for Firefox, involving frigging around with symlinks, etc, etc... Please can anyone help me with: 1. How do I deinstall the plugin??? (is running "aptitude remove java-gcj-compat-plugin" the recommended course of action???)
Yes.
2. Are there any gotchas with the manual install of JRE 6??? TIA, fcG.
I had to create a few symlinks for java to work. For the plugin, you want to create a symlink in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ to one of the plugin binaries in the Java plugins directory. For example, if you installed JRE to /usr/local/share/jre1.6:
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/local/share/jre1.6/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .Don't necessarily follow these instructions exactly. There are two java plugins in the Sun java package, but only one will be appropriate for your system. Examine /usr/local/share/jre1.6/plugin.
Symlinks in /usr/local/bin for java and javaws might also benefit you when using other programs. Good luck.