On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:25:15 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote: > I went back to F8 i386 yesterday because I need to be able to use Sun's > Java plugin with Firefox. In the process I found out a couple of > interesting things. > > 1) The XINERAMA bug is indeed fixed with version 1.0-4 of libxcb > > 2) You can configure the Sun Java plugin to work with alternatives just > like java and javac > > I've updated my instruction page to reflect this. I also moved this > file although the old address will still work. > > http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/sun-java-on-F8.html > > Thanks, > > -- > Knute Johnson > Molon Labe... I'm getting some errors trying to install java sun-compat: [root@phoenix ~]# rpm -q jre jre-1.6.0_03-fcs [root@phoenix ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i jpackage jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.3.fc8 [root@phoenix ~]# rpm -Uvh java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm warning: java-1.6.0-sun-compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c431416d error: Failed dependencies: jdk = 2000:1.6.0_03-fcs is needed by java-1.6.0-sun compat-1.6.0.03-1jpp.i586 [root@phoenix ~]# yum list | grep -i jdk jdk.i586 2000:1.6.0-fcs installed ldapjdk.i386 4.17-1jpp.7 fedora ldapjdk-javadoc.i386 4.17-1jpp.7 fedora [root@phoenix ~]# I can't find jdk 1.6.0.3. So I uninstalled sun's jre, installed sun's jdk and installation worked. Still, I can't view cnn video. If I remember correctly, cnn video used to be stored temporarily as /tmp/FlashXYZ. Doesn't seem to be the case anymore? Also, for my curiosity, the installation instructions (which I used in the past) from sun don't mention anything about jpackage and sun-compat. Are these packages really necessary (for sun's jre), and if so, why?
