On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Larry Landen wrote:
I made the assumption that what I needed to download to program in java was
the jre. It's instructions helped me download and extract the file. Then it
said I needed to enable and configure it to work. However, at this point, I
get the feeling that this jre is only for Mozilla to run java things on the
internet. Following are its instructions, but I can't get past step one. I
don't know the Mozilla Installation directory.
1) If you install Sun's .bin/.rpm Java file, it won't integrate nicely
with your Fedora system, where things may be different from what Sun
expected. You'll have to make symlinks and have add classpaths to your
.bashrc and so forth. A much better solution is to install Java RPMs built
for FC3.
2) If you want to be able to compile Java programs, you'll need the Java
SDK, not just the JRE.
3) Quick hint for figuring out what the "installation directory" is for
packages (as long as you know the package name):
rpm -ql [packagename]
So in your case it would either be:
rpm -ql firefox
or
rpm -ql mozilla
By doing this on my own system I discovered that firefox and mozilla both
use the same default plugins directory, located at:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
Make the symlink there according to the instructions you pasted, restart
Firefox/Mozilla, and you'll have Java plugin capability.
~ Ross
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