technoratica » java6-plugin http://gavin.mclelland.ca The personal blog of a Stealth Mode CEO Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:29:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Fix: Enable Java 6.0 Plugin in Firefox 2 on Ubuntu 7.10 http://gavin.mclelland.ca/2008/05/16/fix-enable-java-60-plugin-in-firefox-on-ubuntu-710/ http://gavin.mclelland.ca/2008/05/16/fix-enable-java-60-plugin-in-firefox-on-ubuntu-710/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 21:25:46 +0000 gavin http://gavin.mclelland.ca/?p=14 I had an issue where the default plugin was not being recognized by Firefox 2. The first thing I did was upgrade the JRE to version 6 by running an apt-get in terminal:

Next I checked to make sure the upgrade went as planned by checking the installed Java version using the following terminal command:

However, it would seem the root of the problem was the Mozilla plugin directory did not exist. In the end I was able to fix the plugin for Firefox by recreating the plugins directory in my Home folder and creating a link to the Java 6 JRE libjavaplugin_oji.so using the following steps (again in terminal):mkdir .mozilla/plugins cd .mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

This was all it took to get the Java plugin functioning again in Firefox 2.

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