Web developer musings… and then some.

I found this link useful. It helped me to get Java running in Firefox. The instructions are a bit outdated, so I thought to repost.

First we need Java installed:

apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

We go to the Firefox “plugins” folder, and rename for the existing (not working!) plugin with a .bak extension, and then create a symlink to the (hopefully working!) plugin:

cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
mv libjavaplugin.so libjavaplugin.so.bak
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin.so

You’ll need to restart Firefox for the changes to take effect. Hope this helps!

Would you believe it? This is the first time I’m using Firefox 2 on a Linux distro.

My previous attempts (in FC6) to use the binary, just untar and gunzip to /usr/local/firefox failed as there was some library missing, can’t remember the error now when I ran:

$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox

MEPIS however was nice. It worked right out of the box, no configuration required.