Fedora 10: How To Install and Integrate Sun Java on x64 Systems

In order to instal Flash on 64-bit Fedora 10 linux, here's a quick guidelines on how to install macromedia flash x64 to Firefox under Fedora 10 OS.

Fedora 10: How To Install Flash x64 with Firefox

1. Download Sun Java's Linux x64 bit rpm here.
2. Chmod 700 jre-6u13-linux-x64-rpm.bin
3. ./jre-6u13-linux-x64-rpm.bin

The above now shows the License and Agreement. Press 'q' to proceed and type 'yes' to agree.

4. Issue these commands.

# update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/java/jre1.6.0_12/bin/java" 20000
# update-alternatives --set java /usr/java/jre1.6.0_12/bin/java
# ln -sf /usr/java/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
# mozilla-plugin-config -g -c -v

5. Restart Firefox and head on here to test your Sun Java's Fedora 10 installation.

6. To verify Mozilla plugin integration, type

about:plugins

from the address bar and confirm that you are seeing lines as shown:

libnpjp2.so

File name: libnpjp2.so

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-java-vm Java Yes
application/x-java-applet Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 Java Yes
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1 Java Yes


Works great.