250376 - java jre is not installed though plugin installer said so

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Description

[Justus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

whenever i open a site having java applets on it, browser says that the java jre
is not installed. i let the installer download the package and i am told the
download and installation has successfully been done. but when i reopen the same
site after installing i have to face the same problem: the jre is not installed
though the installer told me it would be.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

maybe you shouldn´t rely on the website installing your java correctly.

have a look over here:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java

or here:
http://java.sun.com/
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/install.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/install-linux.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/jre/install-linux.html#plugin
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-linux.html#plugin

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

where do plugin-finder bugs go...?  dumping in plugins

Comment 3

[Jon Roland]

The Java Runtime Environment does not install properly, or is not detected, for
Firefox 1.0.4 running under Fedora core 4, which comes with the latest JRE.
Firefox is not detecting the plugin, even though it seems to be installed, and
after invoking the plugin install page from the page with the "click here to
download" icon that says the JRE plugin is missing, the plugin seems to install,
but is not detected by Firefox, and I get warning messages during apt-get
dist-upgrade that there are two installations of JRE that may be in conflict.

This appears to have been an open issue for some time now, and I would
appreciate it if someone would solve it.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This seems to be wfm, please report Java installer busg to Sun