Firefox says JRE plugin is not installed

[nivedhitha]

Hi all,

*****Firefox is present in
/usr/lib/firefox

*****Downloaded JRE is in /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03

*****My Firefox version is 2.0.0.12.

***** #ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
total 20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 11 21:10 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

*****"Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript" are checked in Edit -> Preferences -> Content

I am unable to view any Java applets still. Where am i going wrong? Please help, i am confused.

Thanks in advance.

[Manchunian]

Did you make jre executable?

[nivedhitha]

Hi,
I downloaded the self extracting RPM's of java from the Sun website
Download Java software for Linux from Sun Microsystems
and followed the instructions in the same page to install java.
I don't think i need to make jre, because i am using rpm method of installation.

Thanks for getting back so quick.

[Manchunian]

Oh yes you do!

Change the permission of the file you downloaded to be executable. Type:
chmod a+x jre-6u<version>-linux-i586-rpm.bin

This comes from the instructions on rpm installation.

[nivedhitha]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

OK. Here is what i did :

1) Downloaded Linux RPM (self extracting file) from
Download Java software for Linux from Sun Microsystems
to my default download location which is /home/nivi/Desktop

2)$su -

3)#cp /home/nivi/Desktop/<the self extracting rpm file which i have downloaded> /usr/java

4)#cd /usr/java

5)#chmod a+x <the self extracting rpm>

6)#./<the self extracting rpm>
and accepted the license agreement.

7) To confirm,

#pwd
/usr/java
# ls -ltr
total 37812
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 12 09:24 default -> /usr/java/latest
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 12 09:24 jre1.6.0_05
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19455348 Feb 22 17:11 jre-6u5-linux-i586.rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19207812 Mar 12 09:23 jre-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 12 09:24 latest -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05


#cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

9)#ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

10)To confirm,
# cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
# ls -ltr
total 20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19160 Feb 2 11:17 libnullplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 58 Mar 12 16:53 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

11)Ensured "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript" are checked in Edit -> Preferences -> Content

12)Restarted Firefox.

No go. JRE is not installed there.
Also, aboutlugins in Firefox does not show Java Plugin as loaded.

Please help.

[Manchunian]

This is the second thread I've replied to this week with this exact problem. You seem to have done everything correctly, as far as I can tell. Have you tried downloading and installing an older version of Java?

[Manchunian]

I just wanted to update this thread with something I've just learned from the other one, dealing with the same problem. There appears to be a problem with the 64 bit version of Java. If this is what you've been trying to install, try the 32 bit one.

[nivedhitha]

Hi
What i have downloaded is the "Linux RPM (self-extracting file) (filesize: 18.32 MB)" from the Java download site at java.com (Download Java software for Linux from Sun Microsystems)

There are two other rpm's namely:
Linux x64 * filesize: 17.50 MB and
Linux x64 RPM * filesize: 17.07 MB
in the same site.

I did not use either of these. So i am assuming that my download (Linux RPM (self-extracting file)) is a 32 bit one.