JRE install help

[pmanousos]

Hello - Ive searched through the posted threads on this topic and did not find or recognize the solution to this issue below:

Not able to get Java plugin to work on Firefox. Workstation is a HP xw8400 running Red Hat WS 4 32/64-bit OS via a quad core Xeon 5355 chip.

I have tried various permutations of the instructions found on the java.com site and have come up empty (firefox browser says it cant find the plugin).

Here is how I installed this version of JRE:
1. Downloaded jre-6u2-linux-amd64-rpm.bin
2. Installed as root (executed above file) with no errors or warnings

Other notes of interest:
- Performing an rpm -q -a | grep jre shows jre-1.6.0_02-fcs is installed
- ls /usr/java shows this version is installed under /usr/java/jre-1.6.0_02 (including the symbolic default and latest dirs)
- included /usr/java/latest in my $PATH statement
- rebooting after install still provided no luck
- typing (as root) java -version gives "1.4.2" (which seems odd)
- I also for "fun" uninstalled this package and then reinstalled the i586 download and added symbolic links per java.com instruction to the /usr/lib directories (for the latest version of mozilla and firefox) and still came up empty

What am I missing??

Pete

[iwanabeguru]

this is the DEBIAN/Ubuntu/other debian based linuxs forum , as i see you are using red hat so try find the solution in the red hat forum

first step maybe uninstall the 1.4.2 jre
than install 1.6 , add jre to the path variable and enable java in the firefox