Firefox 2 and Java problem on SuSE 10

[NikTheGeek]

Hi, I've been pulling my hair out for a couple of days on this one, so any help appreciated.

I had Firefox 1.5 installed and working ok inc Java.

I just installed Firefox 2 replacing 1.5. It works fine, but no Java. I've followed the instructions to the letter on both Sun's site and Mozilla's site but no joy. I've tried a couple of rpm's from various sites with no joy either.

Anyone point me to a walkthrough for getting Java to work on 64bit SuSE with Firefox 2? I'm pretty sure that it is Java that is broken since a java-based ham radio logging program I use everyday is also now not working - but quite why I don't know...

tnx in advance

Nik

[KenJackson]

Start by doing this:

ls -l  ~/.mozilla/plugins/*java*
ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/*java*
ls -l /usr/local/firefox/plugins/*java*

I have only one result from that, and I would expect you to have something similar. If there are conflicting versions, or worse, symbolic links that point to files that no longer exist, you should clean them up.

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
   ../../../../usr/java/j2re1_5_0_08/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

[NikTheGeek]

Fixed! I stayed up late last night and did it by trial and error. I downloaded the latest Java and installed it but the rpm wouldn't install - it kept coming up with errors, but the manual .bin install went ok. The instruction on Mozilla's site say to create a symbolic link from /usr/java/j2re.xxx/plugins/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin.oji.so to /opt/firefox/plugins but in my case I had a ns4, a ns610 and a ns610-gcc32 rather than a ns7. Trial and error showed that /usr/java/j2re.xxx/plugins/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin.oji.so worked.

As for the rpm not working, I did a system repair today and it found several errors. I wonder if that accounted for the problems in the first place....

Nik