How I got Java to work in Firefox

How to enable Java in Ubuntu

Hi,

here is a short recipe how to enable Java applets and the Java console in Ubuntu (and others with the same installation tool set), compiled from a previous contribution and another hint somewhere:

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions
jar -xvf `find /usr/lib/jvm -name ffjcext.zip`
exit

restart Firefox
(normally not required: enable Java)

Hope it helps,

Thomas

Rated 5 out of 5 stars by Thomas Gutzmann on January 2, 2010