Comments on: Install SUN JDK on Fedora 10

By: Suresh

Suresh — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:18:55 +0000

Thanks a lot! it worked.

By: doug

doug — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:59:39 +0000

To make javac available to any individual user, just add the following to each user’s path:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_11
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

For example, if you have a user called suresh, you’d open:
/home/suresh/.bashrc

And add the 2 export command. (This assume you are using bash and the /home/suresh is your home directory)

If you want to make is available to all users, as root edit the file:
/etc/profile

And again add:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_11
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

If your shell is tcsh, you can add it here:
/etc/csh.cshrc

By: Suresh

Suresh — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:34:36 +0000

Thanks for the useful info posted above. Could you please tell me how to make “javac” accessible to all users. At the moment I can compile programs only if I login as root. Thanks!

By: doug

doug — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:16:31 +0000

You need to manuallly install the plugin. See this thread here:

http://www.e-graviton.com/ird/node/195

It says:

On my Linux box, the plugins directory does not exist. So I have to create a new one first. Here is the sequence.
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[yuz@localhost .mozilla]$ mkdir plugins
[yuz@localhost plugins]$ pwd
/home/yuz/.mozilla/plugins
[yuz@localhost plugins]$ ln -s /home/yuz/jdk1.5.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so ./libjavaplugin_oji.so
[yuz@localhost plugins]$ ls
libjavaplugin_oji.so
[yuz@localhost plugins]$
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Then I added the following lines to my .bash_profile
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MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.mozilla/plugins
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
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Log off and log on again, start the firefox, and I can run the java applet on linux!

By: mechdude

mechdude — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:14:31 +0000

Any differences installing from Sun’s RPM?

I’d installed from Sun’s RPM, however any browser (Opera, Firefox, Konqueror) can’t run any Java content. Also Opera does not open the Java Console.

(Fedora 10 x86_64 with RPMs installed jdk-1.6.0_11-fcs.i586 firefox-3.0.4-1.fc10.i386)