[COLUG] Problem with Firefox Finding JRE

[Brian Miller]

On Saturday 24 March 2007 10:47 am, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> 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.
> _______________________________________________

On OpenSuSE 10.2, the Java plugin is located 
at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update10/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so, 
and the firefox plugins directory is at /usr/lib/firefox/plugins.  So assuming 
you are in the /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory, the command to issue would 
be 
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_update10/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so . 

Note the dot (.) at the end, which tells ln where to put the link.