Sunday, January 11, 2009

How to install java plug-in on Fedora 9

For some sites, you need java plug-in on your web browser. Without this plug-in, you can not see the content of sites entirely. To check out, is your web browser java enabled? Please go to http://www.javatester.org/enabled.html. Or, you can go to http://www.javatester.org/version.html to know more about your java version what you are using. Hint: before you install java plug-in, please print the screen from the two sites above.
To enable Java plug-in on your web browser, follow these steps :
1. Download
2. Install
3. Enable and configure
4. Test installation
Download
To download this plug-in, please go to
http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#download. After download,
move the file (jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin) to /usr/java directory.
Code
[msmunir@msmunir1 ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@msmunir1 ~]# cd /usr/
[root@msmunir1 usr]# mkdir java
[root@msmunir1 usr]# cd java/
[root@msmunir1 java]# cp /home/msmunir/Download/jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin .
Install
For install, see http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm
Code
[root@msmunir1 ~]# cd /usr/java/
[root@msmunir1 java]# chmod a+x jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@msmunir1 java]# ./jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@msmunir1 java]# rpm -ivh jre-6u11-linux-i586.rpm
Enable and configure
Code
[root@msmunir1 java]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[root@msmunir1 plugins]# ln -s
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_11/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .
Close web browser and run again.
Test installation
Check out again these sites :
http://www.javatester.org/enabled.html
http://www.javatester.org/version.html to know your java version
After install java plug-in, print the screen again from two sites above
and compare it with print screen before install java.
by. msmunir@batan.go.id

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