java refusing to install!!!!!

[rock freak]

h there ive have posted on trying ot get my java working on my ubuntu machine before it worked on my home one yet i go to do i on the one at work and it just refuses to install ive tried everything i no of!!! HELLLPPP

cheers for any help

Ollie

[Viro]

h there ive have posted on trying ot get my java working on my ubuntu machine before it worked on my home one yet i go to do i on the one at work and it just refuses to install ive tried everything i no of!!! HELLLPPP

cheers for any help

Ollie

You need to provide more information. What have you tried, and what where the error messages you received?

[rock freak]

it would appear to have installed java with no errors but you go to a java page on the web and it just doesnt work!! i have tried stuff from the package manager and i have tried the sun java one. ive tried tht dseveral times actually.

ill find the orginal thread i had on this so you can see that i have tried that to and it didnt work!!

[rock freak]

this is the linkt hat i was given to try and install java one it worked for the home PC but not the college one :@ it jsut returned that it couldn't find the servers

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/forum/software/JavaApt

any help will be good cheers

[Viro]

Assuming that you've installed Java successfully via some package or binary, you need to create a symlink to your /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins directory. I'm not at my work machine at the moment, so I won't be much help.

If you're still stuck tomorrow, I'll post the instructions when I get to the office.

[rock freak]

yeah if you could post that tomorrow for me that would be great cheers!!!!

[Zerlinna]

to create the symlink, do:


cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

of course the direcotry (/usr/java/...) may diverge depending on how and where you installed java. If you don't know where you have the libjavaplugin_oji.so do


locate libjavaplugin_oji.so

Z.

[rock freak]

cheers ill try that tomorrow!!!

[rock freak]

still no joy!!!! any other ideas my java is installed in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/

i am running the amd64 version of ubuntu so tht could have something to dowith it and the 64bit version of java is installed!!!!!!!

[healychan]

Please have a look at the guide in my signature. I hope it solves your problem.

[Thirsteh]

rock_freak, type the following in a terminal:

sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06 /usr/java/default

See if that helps.

[Viro]

still no joy!!!! any other ideas my java is installed in /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/

i am running the amd64 version of ubuntu so tht could have something to dowith it and the 64bit version of java is installed!!!!!!!

If you're running the 64 bit version of Java, you may need to change the path of the plug-in. The path that was given to you was for the i386 (i.e. 32 bit version). Try substituting the i386 in the path with whatever the 64 bit architecture is called. I don't have a 64 bit machine, so I can't say.

So your final command should be something like

cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/plugin/$YOUR_ARCHITECTURE$/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so


Try that and see if it will work.