On Wednesday 26 December 2007 16:01, Robert Locke wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 00:37 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Monday 24 December 2007 20:37, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Monday 24 December 2007 18:14, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > On Monday 24 December 2007 02:04, Robert Locke wrote: > > > > > Getting ready to switch the wife over to Fedora, but there is one > > > > > online app that my be a deal breaker. > > > > > > > > > > I am trying to run jigzone.com Jigsaw puzzles on F8 (all updated). > > > > > Tried on two machines. One has just IcedTea while the other has > > > > > both IcedTea and Sun JRE 1.6. Both machines play the pretty bubble > > > > > test the jigzone.com site suggests, but fail to play the puzzles. > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone else been able to get this going or have any > > > > > suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > --Rob > > > > > > > > Hi Robert. I don't think there's anything wrong with the site. I > > > > tried it with my FC2 install, which has Sun's jre_1_5_0_06 (needs > > > > upgrading), and with Firefox 2.0.0.9. I'm on dialup, couldn't > > > > initially find the "bubbles" test, so tried the "Ho Ho Ho" puzzle of > > > > the day. It did take a while to load (possibly because of dialup > > > > bandwidth), but the jigsaw, though quite difficult worked fine. > > > > > > > > I'll try it on F8 (which has icedtea), and on F7, where I installed > > > > Sun's JRE recently (jre-1.6...?) > > > > > > > > Nigel. > > > Nigel. He say. > > > > Meanwhile, back at the the ranch, and some time later after installing > > Sun's JRE and messing with Java stuff on F8. > > > > Without wishing to ramble on about all the stuff I've tried to get this > > site loading up the jigsaws on F8, this I believe is the best solution, > > as the icedtea browser plugin appears to be the problem. > > > > I use Apt, and Synaptic, but Yum should do this ok, as below. > > yum remove java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin > > > > Having done this Firefox now loads the jigsaw applet ok on F8. > > > > I presume the Sun JRE install went ok, and you have now a "java" > > directory in /usr. > > > > The only other thing neccessary is the symlink below run as root. > > > > ln > > -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > > > Sorry about kmails wordwrapping. The line should start as. ln -s > > > > Hope you get this working ok. The jigsaws are a lot of fun. > > I ended up doing something similar to above. > > I did not want to remove IcedTea, because I seem to recall some features > in OpenOffice.org requiring it (gcj) at one point in my past.... > > I installed the Sun JDK 6u3, then went to jpackage.org and installed > their java-1.6.0-sun-compat to enable alternatives. I tried to be a > good boy first. > > Though even after running alternatives, it left the IcedTea plugin > listed first in about:plugins. Removing the symlink > of /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so got rid of the IcedTea > plugin, but the site still did not work until I stumbled across one more > little piece to make Sun happy. I installed compat-libstdc++-33. Now > the Jigsaw puzzles are working great and the Christmas present to my > wife is now complete.... > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions, > > --Rob Hi Rob. Glad you got the jigsaws working. The reason I mentioned doing a, yum remove java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin which should not affect the rest of icedtea that is installed, is because of a little experience I had with Totem on FC6, and a later Fedora version. An update for Totem put a load of libtotem plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (unknown to me at the time). When I next started Firefox, and tried to listen to something on a site, a window opened saying totem didn't know how to play this file. Odd I thought, as there weren't any totem plugins in mozilla plugins before. Taking a look at about:plugins in FF, sure enough there was now a load of totem stuff. Taking a little trip down to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, I renamed them all. Fired up FF again, and about:plugins, and no totem stuff. Job done, or so I thought. Some time later, and not FC6, but on F7, or 8, the totem plugins problem is back, and again after updates. Interesting, I thought. So back into mozilla/plugins. The renamed ones are obviously still there, and are deactivated with the renaming, but now I have a new set of libtotem plugins. The totem update appears to have replaced them. Now the moral to this is, that even though you have deleted libjavaplugin.so from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, an update to icedtea may well replace it, with the consequence that your wife will be bending your ear that the jigsaws don't load anymore. Personally, I think I'd leave it like it is for now, but keep an eye open for any icedtea updates for F8, checking afterwards to see if the libjavaplugin.so has been replaced in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If so, I'd do the, yum remove java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin. I don't thing it will affect gcg in OO, as it's just the browser plugin. All the best, and happy jigsawing. Nigel. btw. Apologies about not mentioning compat-libstdc++-33. It was already installed for something else that had required it.
