I've been trying forever to get the Java plugin to work on Firefox on Linux. There is an Ubuntu specific way to do it but I don't want to use apt to install it. My JDK is installed in /usr/local/jdk1.6.0_18.
So how do I do it? Used to be, you could go into the mozilla/plugins folder and you link the libjavaplugin_oji.so from the jre/plugins folder. Except no such file exists on my installation of the JDK. After searching on google and looking at official documentation from Oracle/Sun, I saw others have it... but not me. Turns out that my JDK is 64-bit and the setup is different. From one of the Oracle/Sun forums, I noticed that the name and path to the plugin are now different on the 64-bit version of the 1.6 JDK.
So, in my case, the plugin is located at
So how do I do it? Used to be, you could go into the mozilla/plugins folder and you link the libjavaplugin_oji.so from the jre/plugins folder. Except no such file exists on my installation of the JDK. After searching on google and looking at official documentation from Oracle/Sun, I saw others have it... but not me. Turns out that my JDK is 64-bit and the setup is different. From one of the Oracle/Sun forums, I noticed that the name and path to the plugin are now different on the 64-bit version of the 1.6 JDK.
So, in my case, the plugin is located at
/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_18/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
and by creating a symbolic link to it in ~/.mozilla/plugins, I have access to the Java plugin now. I needed that to use webex on my Ubuntu machine.
