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sun-java6 package

  1. Bug #424971
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 424971

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Stuart Rossiter (monsieurrigsby) wrote :

Same problem on Jaunty 32-bit.

sun-java6-plugin installs, Sun Java the default Java (in update-alternatives), but Firefox 3.6.8 about:plugins shows no plugin installed.

Unlike BjA, the fix for me was to symlink the separate libnpjp2.so in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins *and* /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. In my build, only libjavaplugin.so was there, correctly symlinked to the /usr/lib/jvm path.

Is this something that's broken with the recent upgrade of Firefox to 3.6 on older Ubuntu releases (such as Jaunty)??

ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[includes only /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so]

ls -al /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[includes only /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so]

cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

[Test Java plugin]
firefox http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp