Install Java Plug-in on Fedora 9

For some sites, you need java plug-in on your web browser, such as YouTube. 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://javatester.org/enabled.html. Or, you can go to http://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 Java. or my site. After download, move the file (jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin) to /usr/java directory.

Code
[msmunir@msmunir ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@msmunir ~]# cd /usr/
[root@msmunir usr]# mkdir java
[root@msmunir usr]# cd java/
[root@msmunir 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@msmunir ~]# cd /usr/java/
[root@msmunir java]# chmod a+x jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@msmunir java]# ./jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@msmunir java]# rpm -ivh jre-6u11-linux-i586.rpm

Enable and configure

Code
[root@msmunir java]# cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[root@msmunir 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://javatester.org/enabled.html and http://javatester.org/version.html to know your java version.

After install java plug-in, print screen again from two sites above and compare it with print screen before install java.

by Muh. Sirojul Munir