[Owasp-webscarab] installing webscarab on Linux Fedora

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Quoting Nigel Sykes <nigels at wymes.demon.co.uk>:

> Hi
> 
> with regards to the XP issues deleting all previous traces of the program 
> and any files or directories that existed did the trick . With regards to 
> the Linux installation I do not appear to have the java program   (i.e. 
> <path_to>/java -jar <path_to>/webscarab.jar) on my machine ? As I have the 
> mozilla firefox browser installed all that is required for java support  is 
> for the sun java run time environment to be installed (which it is ) and a 
> symbolic link to the relevant plug-in file ns610-gcc32 from the mozilla 
> plugin directory. This done I tested various java applets which ran ok.
> 

Hi Nigel,

You need to have a JRE on your machine to run applets. I'm not sure how the
browser accesses it, but if you can run java applets, it should be there.

try something like:

locate java | grep bin

in a terminal window to see where it is hiding itself.

Rogan