Yes, please, I said. That was, because I was once again unable to view a certain website and was forced to install Java on my Linux system. It was quite seamless. I downloaded the self extracting binary file and gave the user permission to execute the file. After doing exactly this I typed “Yes” to accept some Sun license agreement and Java was installed in my working directory, which I had knowingly set to /usr/java. Unfortunately, Mozilla Firefox was still unable to display the website in question. So what? I goddamned wanted coffee with my Firefox browser! Of course (and this blog post is a reminder to myself the next time), I forgot to set a symbolic link in the Firefox plugins directory to the libjavaplugin_oji.so of the corresponding Java installtion. Shame on me. After doing so, everything worked perfectly. Silly me to expect that the installation file would tell me to set the symlink. Our maybe the installtion guide on the official Get Java Homepage. No, no. Nothing like that along the way. After all I’m a Linux user. I should be savvy enough to figure it out myself, shouldn’t I?
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