install java plugin on mozilla [newbie]

[aze]

Hi all!
I downloaded from sun: file:/home/leandro/j2re-1_4_1_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm
but when I double click on the rpm nothing happens
Btw, how do I install RPMs via console?
Thanks!

[jetblackz]

For install,

rpm -i filename.ext

For upgrade,

rpm -U filename.ext

I think you've installed it, but you don't know where it's installed. Probably in /usr.

find / -name "java" -print

Then you might need to link it to mozilla's plugin,

ln /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Replace folder names.

[aze]

it isnt installed :( (nothing was found)
also i tried about:plugins

as su:

rpm -i j2re-1_4_1_02-fcs-linux-i586.rpm

It take a while but nothing happens and no output is printed on console.
Why? How do I install it?
thanks for helping

[jetblackz]

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/InstallingJava.html

[zdude255]

Sun's rpm installs it inside /usr/java

[pjsheehan]

I followed these (http://members.shaw.ca/trollking/linux.html) directions to get java working in RH9. The only thing I had to change was the java and mozilla versions as these are older directions.

[rnsmith]

RH8.0/Mozilla 1.0.1 -
I copied only the libjavaplugin_oji.os file into /mozilla/plugins. The mozilla "about plug-ins" gives alot of info. But when I try to play a JAVA game it closes the mozilla window. Am I missing something?

[pjsheehan]

Did you try doing it as a symbolic link?

ln -s /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/plugins/

(or the paths to the versions you have)

[Hayl]

Originally posted by rnsmith
RH8.0/Mozilla 1.0.1 -
I copied only the libjavaplugin_oji.os file into /mozilla/plugins. The mozilla "about plug-ins" gives alot of info. But when I try to play a JAVA game it closes the mozilla window. Am I missing something?

copying the plugin does not work. you have to symlink it per the post above.