Hi, I am at a loss, I won't toot my own horn, I'm just a stupid bloke who can't get it.
I downloaded and installed java1.6.0_02
I did the following :
I logout of X session, restart X, go to firefox and it shows up in about: plugins in the address bar ..... there it says it is installed. However, it does not load applets.Code:[joe@localhost ~]$su - root [root@localhost joe]# cd /usr/local/src/ [root@localhost src]# mv jre jre-6-linux-i586.bin jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin jre1.6.0_02/ [root@localhost src]# mv jre1.6.0_02/ /opt/ [root@localhost src]# ln -sf /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ [root@localhost src]# ln -sf /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/plugins/ [root@localhost src]# ls -ladh /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 134K 2007-06-15 08:28 /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2007-10-02 03:18 /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.5/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2007-10-02 03:17 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so [root@localhost src]#
Also, yes, I have turned on java in the browser.