On Sunday 06 January 2008, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >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? I just got through pulling the majority of my plugins back with amrecover, and moving them to a /usr/lib/plugins that is a link to firefox/plugins, and the about:plugins now shows a quite lengthy list including the java stuffs. I can watch about 10 of the cnn video's, with good sound once I'd nuked that busted pulseaudio, but somewhere around the 10th video in a row, firefox-2.0.0.11 went away, to be replaced with its crash report form. It has done that several times before when I was running FC6, now on F8, so if enough of use submit those reports, it just might get fixed. I believe it is a ff problem, not a fedora problem. Has anyone installed the beta 3 of firefox? How is it working? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) You're at Witt's End.
