Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a suitable plugin. I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the following packages installed: firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.i386.rpm java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.i386.rpm Any ideas what I'm missing? The Java plugin is not something I use often, but when I need it, I need it. Do I need to dump openjdk and get Java directly from Sun? It looks like libjavaplugin_oji.so went away when Sun Java got replaced by the openjdk version. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
In a highly frustrated moment I wrote:> Somewhere during the course of recent updates I've lost the Java plugin > for Firefox. Not sure when it happened, but I know Java was working in > Firefox earlier this year. Firefox comes up empty when searching for a > suitable plugin. I'm running a fully updated CentOS 5.3 with the > following packages installed: > > firefox-3.0.12-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.115.i386.rpm > java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.2.b09.el5.i386.rpmOK, never mind. I've got jre-1.6.0_05-fcs installed again now, and all is well. Now I remember what happened. Back on Aug. 8, yum was acting all wonky and insisted that the java-1.6.0-openjdk update conflicted with the jre package. I'm not seeing that conflict any more, and jre-1.6.0_05-fcs coexists just fine with java-1.6.0-openjdk. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
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