Scotty Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Hi, Have downloaded the ver 5 JRE for mozilla, run the binary and then tried to add the symbolic link as described here . So here's my screen that has the terminal showing files were installed corectly (I ran the bin twice to make sure) and the used find to check the location... and it tells me the files don't exist! Pls have a look at my screen shot and tell me what's going on... MDK 10.1 offical and Gnome 2.6? thanks... [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 are you sure you......... used the correct plugin based on your version of GCC? did you symlink the plugin as root, not user? did you have the browser closed while doing the symlink? if the answer of "no" to any of the above, the plugin will fail. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 are you sure you......... used the correct plugin based on your version of GCC? did you symlink the plugin as root, not user? did you have the browser closed while doing the symlink? if the answer of "no" to any of the above, the plugin will fail. Chris <{POST_SNAPBACK}> GCC? Waz-at? Didn't get as far as symlinking... couldn't find the file to confirm its location... That's my problem. Cannot find the files anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Try to wipe out all the files the java tried to install and redownload Java. It could be a bad download. .:=The AI Dude=:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 a default install of Java in Mandrake will put it in /usr. the plugin you need to symlink will be in /usr/java/j2re<version>/plugin/i386/. you need to use the correct plugin type from one of the directories in there to symlink it. for Java1.5X that folder would be /ns7. for Java1.4X the folder would be /ns610-gcc32. for some more help, see my post #39 in This Thread. it refers to an older version of Java, but the same method still apllies. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted December 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 (edited) Ok went to /usr/java and the dir is empty.. yes tried ls -a, and all is empty.. Trying urpmi again..these are the options; gcc-java gettext-java java_binfmt libdbjava3.3 libdbjava4.1 libdbjava4.2 which one do I need? Last time I just downloaded the Binary from the Sun site. TA Edited December 2, 2004 by Scotty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 Generally speaking you'd want the java rpm from sun, did you get the jre, and not the sdk? Try rpm -qa | grep -i java to find the name of the installed java package, then: rpm -ql nameofpackage to find where it installed the files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 (edited) I reinstalled the latest version of the sun j2re yesterday, so maybe this can help you: Download it from here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html download the xxx-rpm.bin version as root: run it to accept the license agreement and unpack the rpm: sh j2re*-rpm.bin install it with urpmi: urpmi j2re*.rpm I then edited /etc/profile to add: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06 export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin I followed the instructions in the firefox help page to instruct firefox as to where java was. Not sure how you handle mozilla but the posts above should point you to the right answer. I did point Konqueror to the new path /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_06/bin/java but it's not working for some reason. I'll have to figure that one out sometimes but I don't use Konq for web browsing much anymore now that I use Firefox. Edited December 2, 2004 by papaschtroumpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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