updating java run time

ladypcer · Member Joined: 01 Aug 2024 Posts: 224 Location: Illinois

I have an older version of jre on my OS, and was able to dowload and install it to a folder (/usr/java/jre1.5.0_04) but how do I get it to run as a plugin in FireFox?

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jbsnake · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2024 5:38 pm Post subject:

there should be a directory under the jre directory called "plugins" or something to that affect. and there should also be a plugins directory under the firefox directory...
let's say you have the directory /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugins and the directory /usr/firefox/plugins
i would do this (as root):

ladypcer · Member Joined: 01 Aug 2024 Posts: 224 Location: Illinois

I found the plugin folders and did this-
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/* /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
but it didn't work, so I must have the wrong folder for the mozilla-firefox plugin, or something.
It didn't tell me it was a bad command though.

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jbsnake · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2024 6:42 pm Post subject:

did you close then reopen firefox?
also... when you do close then reopen the browser... type

ladypcer · Member Joined: 01 Aug 2024 Posts: 224 Location: Illinois

Yep. It show no java plugin at all.

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Ageros · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2024 7:15 pm Post subject:

Odds are thats not the right folder, because that did the trick for me. Unless by chance you have Java disabled in the Firefox settings, but then again it should still show up as installed. Recheck the plugin folder for firefox.

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ladypcer · Member Joined: 01 Aug 2024 Posts: 224 Location: Illinois

No, java is enabled in the browser.

Ok, the brower/s plugin folders are here- /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and here- /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

The version that came with Mepis is here- /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/libjavaplugin_oji.so
and the newer version I installed is here- /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

These are the libjavaplugin_oji.so files that I need the browser to look for, right?

So given this info, what do I need to do to get mozilla and mozilla firefox to load either one?
I'll settle for either right now.
Laughing

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Ageros · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2024 8:35 pm Post subject:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins

For Mozilla its just the same thing only link it to Mozilla's plug-in folder instead of Firefox's. The reason it didn't work before was because all you did was link the i386 folder to the Firefox plugins folder not the .so file. I've always had to link to the file directly to make it work.

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jbsnake · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2024 8:35 pm Post subject:

as root

ladypcer · Member Joined: 01 Aug 2024 Posts: 224 Location: Illinois

Thank you, thank you both! That worked. Very Happy

I kind of thought maybe I needed the whole path, after I ran down where the .so files were located, but that was a bit confusing.
I'll copy that so I'll have it should I need it in the future.
Thanks guys! Cool

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