download the latest from java website :
http://download.oracle.com/auth/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u27-b07/jdk-6u27-linux-x64-rpm.bin?e=1313557110&h=84d2a6dfdee93e926d179d506fafa3e3
sh jdk-6u27-linux-x64-rpm.bin
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_27/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so
test by :
about:plugins
I have the same issue with eeebuntu on eeepc too, sudo this, sudo that.
And feels weird typing my own password instead of root’s.
what to do, stuck with centos/rhel for work … and since use the work machine so much, might as well make the other home machines the same for familiarity (except for the eeepc, for which the default centos is a bit too slow).
that remind me on one event at one of my project site.
requirement was easy..
“need to set a new ip address to the machine.”
and the machine happened to be running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) because someone else already installed it earlier..
First few minute wasted to guess the root password as the one who installed it also not quite familiar..
then only realized it need normal user password instead of root password.. (one of occupational hazard i think.)