On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 12:29 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> > On 10/20/2007 02:11 PM, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
> >>    What say the gurus about getting java to work in firefox? Specifically,
> >> I want to see:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHV&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
> >>   
> > Worked here.  I have Blackdown java 1.4.2 installed for my 64 bit
> > browser.  AFAIK, it is the only 64 bit java plugin.
> >> Which has always worked in my suse install since 9.0. Why not in 10.3?
> >>   
> > What arch?  If you run i586, this would not apply.
> > 
> 
> This webpage works greatly here with 10.3 i586
> 
> What I did:
> 
> -found that the command "java" did not work anymore, since there was no
> /usr/bin/java anymore.
> 
> Tried with
> 
> -Found out that the link /usr/bin/java pointed to
> /etc/alternatives/java, which in turn pointed to the wrong, not
> (anymore) existing sun java jre.
> 
> Corrected the link manually from pointing to
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u2-sun/bin/java, which was not there, anmore
> to correctly pointing to
> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u3-sun/bin/java which exists.
> 
> and this was it.
> 
> Actually sometimes I think windows users are happy campers, since they
> can continue with their work instead of tracking down this mess.
> 
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
> 
Eberhard...  using ll, I can see the broken symlinks you are referring
to.  For those of us not familiar with how to change symlinks, can you
give us the exact commands to use step by step to resolve this?

Thanks,

-- 
---Bryen---

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