Michael H. Semcheski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to preface this message by ranting a little about java.
> Someone came into my office today, and in the course of our
> conversation, they asked me what java was.  I explained it, and they
> asked why people use java...  And I tried to explain it, but I had to
> admit that I can't really understand why people use it... Let alone
> why I have to use a java SSL-VPN application!
>
> So anyway, I have been trying and trying to get Sun Java 6 working on
> SL.  The command line version seems to work well enough for jgnash,
> which is the only thing I've used it for so far.  But the Firefox
> plugin... not quite.  Or rather, not at all.
>
> Yum says I have gcj 1.4.2 and java-1.5.0-sun-compat.noarch installed.
> I downloaded the java 6 jre from java.com as a binary installer, which
> unpacks to an rpm and installed it.
>
> I've created symlinks to the sun plugin in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins,
> mucked with about:config java:java_plugin_library_name.
>
> I really need the Sun JRE, but they don't make it easy, do they?  Any
> suggestions?

What I have:
jdk-1.6.0_01-fcs downloaded from Sun and installed with rpm -Uhv.

java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.01-1jpp rebuild from SRPM, downloaded from 
http://www.jpackage.org/ - you find it here:
http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/50/psi/all/java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.01-1jpp.i586.rpm

firefox plugin works with the rpms.

By the way, the link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins is done by 
java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.01-1jpp:
$ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 77 Jun  8 20:56 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so


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