Re: Sun Java on F8 - Improved instructions

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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)
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