Fedora and java

[AllanPen]

I tried without success to get java working in F8. I had destroyed my backup images of F7 so had to re-install it. after downloading all updates it took me under five minutes to get java working successfully so I guess I'm staying with 7. Had to vent. I spent a way too much time trying to get java to work in 8. I had it half there and tried for help: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=172163 but, non came. It has to be something with 8 as java works everywhere else with Firefox 2-0.0.8.

[RedFedora]

I have to agree. I was unable to get sound, Citrix or Java working in Fedora 8.
I re-installed Fedora 6 on the same machine and everything worked without a hitch.
The risks of living on the bleeding edge...

[Thetargos]

Is a bit early for me to talk about the sound subject, but it is another area where Fedora 8 seems a bit odd... My girlfriend's laptop doesn't seem to be producing any sound. And Fedora 8 sound configuration is alien to me, as what I'd usually do (alsamixer) doesn't "work" as I'd expect, in other words, it looks like the PCM channels are mutted, but I have no way of knowing. Will have to check for kernel modules errors and what not (strange, as the Moonshine setup had no trouble with pretty much the same kernel).

[ovadyah]

I have been unable to get java to work on my F8 dell C400 laptop.
I installed the java per FAQ and after my mistakes got corrected java seems to have been installed correctly; but the test will not work.

The intel sound card however, does work

[AllanPen]

My experience was pretty much the same. Firefox "about:plugins" showed java working but, in actual fact it was only half working; didn't work on the test site. Like I say back to F7 was the only course.

[LLS]

Ya there are a couple more steps to geting it to work in F-8.

If you use Suns jre then uninstall the icedtea plugin.

All the work you did at mj's site pluss

make sure to create the plugin-link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped as well as /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/libjavaplugin_oji.so


seems we still need these-
yum install compat-libstdc++* and then

and this takes care of the java bug or who's ever bug that keeps the plugin from working properly-
Use your path to your jre for sun's jre in this comand.
sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/lib/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so

Or you can just use the icedtea version and hope they patch it up to working soon.

[ovadyah]

I do not see the icedtea plugin, how can I make sure it is uninstalled?

[mego22ff]

Iced Tea is an rpm

[mego22@redrum ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i icedtea
java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8
java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0-0.19.b21.snapshot.fc8


you will need to run

rpm -e java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin java-1.7.0-icedtea