Non-Application Installation Settings

Non-Applications

Non-Application Installation Settings

Introduction

Here are some of my non-application installation settings. The main idea is to install only necessary features/add-ons I need, so it will be easier to use slow computers, such as laptops. See also: Program Settings, Program Installation Times, Operating System Installation Settings, Installation Order, Software.

Flash Player 10 (Fedora 13)

- go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ (year 2010)

- select .rpm (not working: .yum)

Java Runtime Environment: Control Panel (Fedora 16)

Become root user.

su

Start Control Panel

cd /usr/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin

ControlPanel

Java Runtime Environment: Path Settings (Fedora 16)

Comment: symbolic link not appearing in Firefox 11: Plugins.

Become root user.

su

Edit file /home/tomihasa/.bash_profile.

Add lines.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin/java

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.6.0_31/bin

Logout, login and check.

echo $JAVA_HOME

echo $PATH

Java Runtime Environment: OpenJDK Install (Fedora 16)

Comment: symbolic link not appearing in Firefox 11: Plugins.

su

yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

Java Runtime Environment: Automatic Install (Fedora 16)

Comment: symbolic link not appearing in Firefox 11: Plugins.

su

yum install jre

Java Runtime Environment: Manual Install (Fedora 16)

Comment: symbolic link not appearing in Firefox 11: Plugins.

Go to Java website and go to downloads.

Download "Linux RPM".

Downloads/jre-6u31-linux-i586-rpm.bin (or similar)

Become root user.

su

Create /usr/java.

Move RPM to /usr/java.

Make RPM executable.

chmod a+x jre-6u31-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Execute RPM

./jre-6u31-linux-i586-rpm.bin

Check there is directory /usr/java/jre1.6.0_31 (or similar)

Exit Firefox before configuring Java Plugin for Firefox.

Go to Firefox plugins directory. Possible locations:

home/tomihasa/.mozilla/plugins (symbolic link not working here)

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (symbolic link not working here either)

Create the symbolic link.

ln -s /usr/java/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

In Firefox check your plugins

Address bar: about:plugins

"Note: If you are upgrading your Java version then before creating new symbolic link you should remove old symbolic link to enable latest downloaded Java."

Last modified: October 1st, 2013

Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/non-application-installation-settings