[sclug] Firefox java plugin bovva on Debian Lenny

[Neil Haughton]

I must be using the 32 bit version of firefox - it's only a 32bit processor.

Neil

On 29 March 2010 13:00, <sclug-request at sclug.org.uk> wrote:

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:48:42 +0100
> Subject: [sclug] Firefox java plugin bovva on Debian Lenny
> Help!
>
> I'm having bother getting the java plugin to work with Firefox 3.6 on
> Lenny.
> Can anyone advise?
>
> I've installed the java 6 package from the repositories, as root:
>
> > apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
>
> I've located the libjavaplugin_oji.so plugin and created a shortcut in my
> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory:
>
> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins> ln -s
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
> I've checked that the link works and isn't broken. The plugin has r_x
> permissions for ROW.
>
> If I restart firefox (no other instances running) and look at
> about:plugins,
> java isn't listed. Pages requiring the plugin don't work.
>
> What  have I missed?
>
> TIA
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk>
> To: Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:50:23 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Firefox java plugin bovva on Debian Lenny
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Neil Haughton wrote:
>
>  I'm having bother getting the java plugin to work with Firefox 3.6 on
>> Lenny.
>> Can anyone advise?
>>
>> I've installed the java 6 package from the repositories, as root:
>>
>>  apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
>>>
>>
>> I've located the libjavaplugin_oji.so plugin and created a shortcut in my
>> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory:
>>
>> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins> ln -s
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>>
>> I've checked that the link works and isn't broken. The plugin has r_x
>> permissions for ROW.
>>
>> If I restart firefox (no other instances running) and look at
>> about:plugins,
>> java isn't listed. Pages requiring the plugin don't work.
>>
>
> Can you confirm that you're running the i386 binary of Firefox, rather
> than,
> say x86_64/amd64?
>
>  What  have I missed?
>> TIA
>> Neil
>>
>
> HTH,
> Alex
>
>
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