I spent almost all of two to three days trying to get the Sun Java plugin wo work in firefox (2.0.0.5 on Fedora 7). It (my laptop) was quite adamantly determined to make me look stupid. I say that because the first draft of the blog post was about how I couldn’t get it to work!
Anyway, I ended up getting distracted by trying to get my PCMCIA wireless LAN card to work (a LinkSys WPC54G). For this I needed to have ndiswrapper. For that I needed to custom compile my kernel. Some would say that is a big distraction!
After coming back to my original Java problem, I thought of generating the rpms myself (Howto: Sun Java on Fedora 7 [Update]). That gave another problem with odbcinst, as discussed on the page.
As a last attempt, I decided to try installing the JDK directly.
- Created java folder in /usr.
- Ran jdk-6u3-linux-i586.bin.
- Created symbolic link for libjavaplugin_oji.so in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/plugins/.
And pages with java applets are working!
All I have to say is Bhooppppp! (Read Tintin – title’s name is Land of Black Gold)
