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Setting up Webex under Fedora 10

These are some notes on how I was able to get Webex to work on my Fedora 10 laptop. Webex is a java application so to start we need to install java. I usually opt to use the real thing because I’ve never been able to get Ice Tea to successfully work with the webex app.

Installing Java

So to start I download java from java.com. Specifically I downloaded version 1.6u14. This will offer up a file, jre-6u14-linux-i586.rpm.bin. After saving that to disk you need to convert this file to it’s native RPM format. This can be accomplished with these commands.

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# unpack RPM file
sh jre-6u14-linux-i586.rpm.bin
 
# install RPM
rpm -Uvh jre-6u14-linux-i586.rpm

Firefox Java Plugin

Once we have the java JRE installed we need to get the java plugin to be picked up by firefox. This can be accomplished by creating a unix link in firefox’s plugin directory, /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. Additionally I also usually create a link in my home directory, ~/.mozilla/plugin. I occasionally run into problems where firefox seems to get confused about which plugins are available when I only install them to the firefox’s main system directory, so I’ve just gotten in the habit of installing them in both directories.

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# install plugin to firefox's main plugins dir
cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
 
# install plugin to user's firefox plugins dir
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

At this point do a quick restart of firefox and you should see the plugin under the pull-down, Tools -> Addons, under the plugins tab.

java plugin added to firefox

java plugin added to firefox


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Firefox Plugins & Addons I use

This report was generated via the “My Config” option available from the MR Tech’s Toolkit addon.



Generated: Wed May 06 2009 23:29:02 GMT-0400 (EDT)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10

Build ID: 2009042315

Enabled Extensions: [21]
Disabled Extensions: [8]
Total Extensions: 29



Installed Themes: [1]
Installed Plugins: (9)
  • Default Plugin
  • DivX® Web Player
  • IcedTea Java Web Browser Plugin
  • Picasa
  • QuickTime Plug-in 7.2.0
  • Shockwave Flash
  • Totem Web Browser Plugin 2.24.3
  • VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.24.3)
  • Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)