On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 21:58 +0100, Tanguy Eric wrote: > Le dimanche 11 novembre 2007 à 21:47 -0500, Tom Diehl a écrit : > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Knute Johnson wrote: > > > > >> I tried the icedtea plugin which seems to work fine except with the vpn > > >> software to connect to my university network. I will try it again > > >> another time but i need to install the sun java. How to do this ? > > >> Thanks > > > > > > Here's what I did on F8rc3 Live, it should work for you but please > > > post back if it doesn't. > > > > > > How to get Sun's Java running on F8rc3 > > > > > > As root - > > > > > > 1) Download the Sun Java Linux RPM from java.sun.com and install it. > > > > > > 2) Fix the Xinerama bug with > > > > > > sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' > > > /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03//jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so > > > > > > Save a copy if you want to restore it to original. > > > > > > 3) Put the link to > > > > > > /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so into > > > > > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > > > > > > 4) Install compat-libstdc++-33 > > > > > > 5) Remove nspluginwrapper > > > > > > Now you should be able to compile and run Java applications, run Java > > > Applets in Firefox and load and run Java Web Start programs. > > > Thanks, here is what i did : > > 1) Download the Sun Java Linux RPM from java.sun.com and install it. > > 2) Fix the Xinerama bug with > sed -i > 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03//jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so > > 3) yum install java-1.6.0-sun-compat from jpackage non free > > 4) Remove /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so > from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins > > 5) Install compat-libstdc++-33 > > 6) Remove nspluginwrapper > > 7) Use alternatives to point java to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-sun/bin/java > and libjavaplugin.so > to /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so > > All works and it seems to little more clean. How about on F8 x64? If I were to remove nspluginwrapper, all of my 32-bit plugins (Adobe Reader, Firefox, ...) would stop working. Can I point specific apps just at Sun's Java without messing up to much of anything else? I'm assuming I can install the 32-bit JDK and then do the Xinerama sed trick at a minimum. I already have everything else but killing nspluginwrapper and Java alternatives done. -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
