[COLUG] Problem with Firefox Finding JRE

[Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.]

Ed Liddle wrote:
> The following is from mozilla's website.
> http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq.html#q2.2
> Linux
> Firefox is compiled with gcc 3.2.3, so a compatible version of the Java
> plugin must be used. On Linux, Firefox requires JRE 1.4.2 or later. 
> 
> If you installed the JRE 1.5.0_10 RPM, this plugin
> is /usr/java/j2re1.5.0_10/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> and to install it for Firefox, do the following:
> 
>      1. Open a terminal
>      2. Change to your Firefox plugins directory
>      3. Issue the following command: ln
>         -s /usr/java/j2re1.5.0_10/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> 
> If you are using an older Linux distribution, you may need to install
> the gcc3 support libraries, as the gcc 3.2 version of the Java plugin
> requires libgcc_s.so.1 to operate. You may be able to find packages
> using Google.
> 
> If you are using an old or unofficial build of Firefox, you can check
> which compiler was used by entering about:buildconfig in the location
> bar and pressing enter. You will see a line such as gcc version 3.3
> 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux), which will show the compiler that
> was used. If gcc2.9x was used, you need to use the ns610 plugin, not the
> ns610-gcc32 plugin.
> 
> I hope this helps as well.
> 
> -Ed Liddle 
> 
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 08:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
>> I am running Firefox 2.0.2 on a 64 bit openSUSE 10.2 system (the package 
>> is part of the OS distribution).  JRE is installed in the defualt 
>> subdirectories /usr/java/jrel.5.0_11.
>>
>> Whenever I have to access an application that requires java I get the 
>> message:
>>
>> 'Additional plugins ar required to display all the media on this page.'
>>
>> Then Firefox tells me that the following plugins are available
>> Java Runatime Environment
>>
>> but the Plugin Service Finder tells me that JRE is not available and we 
>> go around and around in a circle of diminishing radius.
>>
>> Whst do I need to change?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for the reply.  I had looked at the firefox web site but didn't 
find anything.

I had tried every combination of ln -s that I could think of and none of
  them solved the problem withe jre1.5.0_11 so I installed j2re1.4.2_13 
but that didn't work either.

the version of firefox that I have was compiles with gcc 4.1.2 20061115.