I modified the fedora helper script to work under 7 and added it that away.
I know some people from upon this method, but it worked very well and my
system works well.

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_Helper.html


On 10/11/07, Harold Michels <hmichels01@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Goal:
> Get the Java plugin working in Firefox.
>
> Symptom:
> While browsing pages Firefox tells me I need to load plugins for the
> page to be viewed.
> Firefox fails the Java test on the Sun web site.
>
> Operating system Fedora 7.
> Firefox 2.0.0.5
> This is a relatively new installation.
>
> There was no .mozilla/plugins folder or /usr/java on this system.
>
> I downloaded and installed the JRE 1.6.0 binary in a directory I made,
> /usr/java following Sun's directions. The binary is an rpm.bin file that
> I ran as SU. It does not seem to have interacted with the RPM database,
> nor does the OS seem to know it is there. I ran updatedb and RPM still
> does not recognize the JRE 1.6.0.
>
> I already had a version of Java running on my computer:
>
> $ java --version
>
> java version "1.5.0"
>
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)
>
> After the installation of 1.6.0, the version number reported did not
> change.
>
> The 1.5.0 Java seems to be coming from my Java SDK. The Java files that
> I find all seem to be links to the SDK folder.
>
> [koder@localhost ~]$ whereis -b firefox
> firefox: /usr/bin/firefox
> [koder@localhost ~]$ whereis -b java
> java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/lib/java /usr/share/java
>
> I can successfully compile Java code.
>
>
> Before running the JRE 1.6.0 binary the only version of
> libjavaplugin_oji_.so existed in my download folder from an attempt to
> get Java running under an earlier version of Firefox.
>
>
> Neither whatprovides nor provides are running on my system, preventing
> me from running them per Craig's instructions earlier.
>
> Sorry, for all of the above. On to the question.
>
> Should I be installing the file elsewhere? Is so where?
>
> Am I using the incorrect procedure altogether?
>
> Harold
>
>
>
>
>
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