Installing Java plugin for Firefox in 7.04

[Alnico]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with installing the Java plugin for Firefox.

These are my details:
* OS = Ubuntu 7.04 (x64)
* Browser = Firefox 2.0.0.14 (extracted at: /home/alpha/firefox )
* JRE 32-bit version from Java.com (filename: jre-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin)

1. After I extracted the JRE, I got two subfolders, an /etc folder and a /usr folder in my home directory.
2. I then copied the file jexec to /etc/init.d with root permissions.
3. I then copied the /home/alpha/etc/java/jre1.6.0_05 folder to /etc/java/jre1.6.0_05
4. I then made a softlink for the file libjavaplugin_oji.so located in /etc/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7 in the folder /home/alpha/firefox/plugins

Now after doing this, I still cannot view the Java applets when I verify my Java installation on java.com. What is going wrong?

Please help.

[TenPlus1]

It may be easier to enter Synaptic, search for Java6 and select runtime and plugin for installation... This works no problem...

[Alnico]

Tried, but that does not work anymore.