[Hudlug] Java Plugins for Firefox 2

[Andrew Beresford]

Hi Derek,

This page from the Ubuntu Community Documentation should be helpful;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

The short version is that you need to make sure you have the
"multiverse" repository turned on (System->Administration->Software
Sources) and then install the sun-java6-plugin package.

Hope that helps,

Beezly

On 10/05/07, Derek <dmallen at uku.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone help me with the following. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
> (7.04). Using Firefox 2 browser I've not been able to load a page from
> an online bank because it said I did not have Java Runtime Environment
> installed.
>
> Synaptic package manager shows the following file installed:
> 'java-gcj-compat' ver. 1.0.65-8ubuntu3 which is described as a 'Java
> runtime environment using GIJ'.
>
> The Firefox help points to J2RE-1_4_2 which I downloaded as a bin file.
> But going onto Mozilla's 'Plugin' site it points to J2RE-6ul which I
> also downloaded as a bin.
>
> Question. Is JRE installed? If it is then why the problem?
>
> If it is not, which of the two bin files should I install?
> A further complication to this is that the instructions refer to
> changing to the 'plugin' directory for Firefox but I cannot find it.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Derek Allen
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Hudlug mailing list - http://hud.lug.org.uk/
> Hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk  Questions to: hudlug-owner at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hudlug
>