[PLUG] firefox 1.5, java 1.5 plugins not working

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 17:32, Keith Morse wrote:
> Given the following:
>
> /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/
>
> [kgmorse at marguay plugins]# ls -al
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 58 Jan 19 17:16
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
>      /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
>
> Everytime I fire up firefox and plug about:plugins to the browser it
> only shows the default libnull plugin.
>
> Anybody have a clue stick for me?  And sorry about the line wrapping above.

Try making a soft link from to libjavaplugin_oji.so 
from /home/user/.mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so. 

It must be a link- don't copy the file.

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