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From: General Schvantzkoph on 12 Sep 2007 16:57
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:30:54 +0000, Boris Epstein wrote:

> On Sep 12, 3:03 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:47 +0000, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> > On Sep 12, 1:44 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...(a)yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:41:35 +0000, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> >> > Hi all!
>>
>> >> > I just don't seem to be able to find a working JAVA plugin for
>> >> > Firefox 1.5 on a RHEL 5 machine. If you know where to get one or
>> >> > how to sort this out please let me know.
>>
>> >> > Thanks.
>>
>> >> > Boris.
>>
>> >> Is this 64 bit or 32 bit? The Java plugin is 32 bits, it doesn't
>> >> work with 64 bit Firefox. If you are running a 64 bit system make
>> >> sure you have the 32 bit Firefox installed rather than the 64 bit
>> >> one.
>>
>> > Good question. Sorry I forgot to specify that.
>>
>> > I have both the 64-bit Firefox (1.5) and the 32-bit Firefox
>> > (2.0.0.6). It works under neither.
>>
>> > I have a plug-in wrapper which allows me to run 32-bit plugins with
>> > the 64-bit Firefox.
>>
>> > Thanks.
>>
>> Remove the 64 bit version of Firefox, it's probably being invoked
>> instead of the 32 bit version.
>
> Just did. The 32-bit JRE plugin stopped working as have all the other
> plugins. So I guess the problem must be elsewhere...

Do the following,

Download jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
execute it to unpack the directory.

mv jre1.6.0_02 /opt

In ~/.mozilla/plugins do a ln -s to
/opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

I just went through this with 64 bit Fedora 7.
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