Mine works.

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 10:27 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:

Is there any chance the problems with using the Sun Java plugin with Fedora Core 4 or 5 will be resolved soon? I have been unable to use the java plugin as installed by either the jpackage nosrc rpms or manually installing the binary installer for linux on either FC4 or FC5. This is across about 7 machines I have installed here. In all cases I end up with a red X when I attempt to load the java applet at the testvm web page...

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

This problem is really getting old and makes MacOS X look like a better choice for a workstation. Jack ps I can't believe this problem doesn't get more discussion here as it is a major regression. FYI, I tried the latest b87 release of Java 1.6 and it doesn't work any better.

Probably does not get more discussion since most people have it working just fine.

I installed the Sun Java packages using info from here:

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html#Java

This has worked just fine on all my systems.

There are similar instructions for using the jpackage method but I have not used that. Some may find that preferable, but I find getting the package directly from Sun works just fine. The link above details how to setup and use the alternatives method that was introduced a while ago.

Note that I have been using the 1.5.0_06 version of Java. Not sure if the newer version has issues or not. You might want to try a 1.5 version just in case.