Background

If you’d like to add the Oracle/Sun Java plugin to Firefox under Ubuntu here’s a quick tip on how to do it.

NOTE: If you need help installing Java see my previous post, Howto Install/Setup Oracle/Sun Java 1.6.X on Ubuntu 10.10.

Solution

Simply run the following command, which creates a link to the Java plugin, thus “installing it” as a Firefox plugin.

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cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

Now restart Firefox. You can test if the plugin was installed correctly here.

References

• Configuring Java for Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu 11.04 – Learned Stuffs blog

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