How to enable Flash and Java on RedHat?

[WhiteTornado]

Hi,

I have redHat 9.1, the 2.4.20-20.9 version. I am usign Opera 7.23, I installed that as I thought it would help me getting these plugins installed and in use. I have downloaded the flash plugin for RedHat 9.1, but I am not getting anything happening when I use rpm -iv ...

On the Java, I also downloaded the plugin for RedHat 9.1, I followed the instructions on getting the licensed agreed upon and it unpacked the software, I thought I installed it corectly. When I go in Opera to use it (preferences-multimedia- option to enable Java and gave him the path: /home/marcel/Informatique/jre1.2.2/lib/i386
It validated it as a valid one, but when I tried to go to open Java applet, the browser crashes and shuts down.

Granted I am newbie and I might have omitted some key steps - I was not able to locate further instructions from the many sites I have visited on that. Any good leads would be really cool. Thanks.

Cheers!

[DSwain]

for the flash rpm file: use rpm install -Uvh package.rpm
(the u in -Uvh must be capital)
for Java, this may help http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming/Installing_Java_on_a_Linux_Computer.html (Install Java on Linux) it should do it, maybe.

[voidinit]

Download the j2sdk from Sun (http://java.sun.com). You will need the whole j2sdk for linux, not the just the jre.

Unpack the j2sdk in a handly location. Like /usr/local/java.

If you have installed the j2sdk in /usr/local/java then cd to the directory of your browser's plugins. Like /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/netscape/plugins. Then make a symlink called libjavaplugin_oji.so pointing to /usr/local/java/sdk/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Restart your browser. That should do it.

[WhiteTornado]

Hi,

Thanks for the tips - The rpm command correctly installed flash - however I am not sure how to get Opera to use it to read flash files.

I followed the procedure for the Java, did the symlink, all seemed to have gone the right way - but I can't seem to find the right path to locate the java plugin so that opera will be able to use it.

It must be in the way Opera gets configured, the instructions steps from Sun don't cover that.

Cheers!

[voidinit]

I don't know anything about opera, but if it has a plugin directory of some sort, then a symlink to libjavaplugin_oij.so might work.

[WhiteTornado]

Hi,

Thanks - yes I got the symlink installed and java is now running - tried to install flash as well, I had it running, then I was also working on trying firebird, installed flash on it, and it screwed up my flash reading on opera :-(

I might have screwed something on trying to get these 2 browser to run at the same time,

cheers