Fedora: Java JRE from SUN (64 Bit)

This was shamelessly "stolen" and adapted from backtrack forum

System

Fedora release 13 (Goddard)

Linux shinigami 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 19 04:06:30 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux



Download the .bin file

sudo sh jre-6u22-linux-x64-rpm.bin

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/java/jre1.6.0_22/bin/java" 1

sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/java/jre1.6.0_22/bin/java

sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_22/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

Restart Firefox