Plugins for Firefox 2 on OpenSUSE – resolved

March 17, 2008 in computer, geekage, Linux, open source

Ha! Fixed.

Despite the Mozilla Foundation telling you to install the Java Runtime like this:

su root
password: yourrootpasswordhere
cd /usr/java/
chmod x+a jre-6u5-linux-i585-rpm.bin
/home/yourusername/Desktop/jre-6u5-i586-linux.rpm.bin


It won’t work. But if you follow the rest of these instructions it should. Assuming you want Java in a directory called /usr/java/ and you downloaded the thing to desktop by default, that is. Read the EULA, press space to scroll, type yes at the prompt.

rpm -iv ./jre-6u5-i586-linux.rpm
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Now, going by the official documentation, you would think this was time to restart the browser and call it a day. But it won’t work. So you need to:

cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Now it will. Does anyone think this could be more user friendly?