Bryen wrote: > 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, > sure. You are wellcome.
Just to warm up: -"java" yields "command not found" -as root "find / -name "java" yields many things java, among them "/usr/bin/java" Now for something real: ls -la /usr/bin/java: .... /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java then ls -la /etc/alternatives/java .../etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u2-sun/bin/java (which does not exist!) go to /etc/alternatives and delete the existing link to the non existing java executable: as root: cd /etc/alternatives rm java create a new link there with the name "java" to the existing java executable. Beforehand, check on your system, whether java is REALLY there, where you want to link to! ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0.u3-sun/bin/java ./java double check with: ls la java then as ordinary user, check, whether "java" yields a long explanation of all the parameters that you can use with it. ;-)) start firefox enjoy. I hope it will work for you, as well. kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
