I am wondering why the IBM java that ships with SLES 11 doesn't meet your needs, but that's another discussion completely. It looks like the jre installation instructions are assuming SLES 10 as when you look the plugins directory for firefox does not exist. To get the plugin to work I did the following: 1. I installed the jre as described (ie ./jre-6u26-linux-x64-rpm.bin) 2. Created a plugins directory in /usr/lib64/firefox/ 3. then modified the directory rights (chmod 755 /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/) 4. created a softlink to the libnpjp2.so file ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_26/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 5. Restarted firefox and checked for the plugin, which was there. 6. went to www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp and got the "Your Java is working" message The above assumes that you are using the 64bit version of SLES 11, but I would guess that doing the same thing on a 32bit installation would also work. The other solution is to use yast software management and install the 1.6 version of the IBM Java that is included with SLES 11 making sure you also install the java plugin rpm.

Thank you so much!