Java plugin in Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04
April 15th, 2009
I needed to install a Java plugin for Firefox under Ubuntu 9.04 (beta). This didn’t happen by itself when I installed sun-java6-plugin, but a quick search showed me what Eirik Hoem found out a year ago.
Or, as Karl Trygve said in a comment; messing about in /usr is usually not a good idea
- the link could be made in /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins, and the plugin would then be available for all users on the computer.
Linking the java plugin to Firefox (paths might vary a bit, depending on Java versions):
cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
I didn’t have Icedtea installed, but I do use OpenJDK for development. Works now, at least. 
