Sun java plugin on FC9 x64 (with 32 bit firefox)

[John Priddy]

Agreed.  I would love to use an oss version of java if possible.  
Unfortunately some of the applets just don't work as expected -- be it 
because the oss java isn't working right or the silly applets I am using 
test for specific version numbers -- I don't much care.  Clearly its 
pretty ridiculous that sun has still not released a compatible plugin at 
this point (see the 'bug' reports for the latest linux plugin), but I 
digress...  I have an i386 version of FC9 here that works with this 32 
bit version of the java plugin and these applets work on it.  Bottom 
line -- I want the same on 64 bit if possible.  Is there a way to have a 
64bit FC9 os running while having the sun branded java plugin working?  
I am willing to jump through as many hoops as possible, assuming its not 
'reinsall with i386'.  Btw nswrapper clearly states they do not support 
sun java.


Francis Earl wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:31 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>   
>> On Friday 23 May 2008, John Priddy wrote:
>>     
>>> Has anyone been able to get this to work on FC9 x64?
>>>
>>> I have installed jre-6u6-linux-i586.bin, then overwrote various binaries
>>> from jre-6u6-linux-x64.bin.  Then using yum I removed 64 bit firefox,
>>> installed 32, and then linked
>>> /usr/java/jre1.6.0_06/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so in
>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins .  I load up firefox, and i see it under
>>> about:plugins.  But no matter what java applet I try to use with it, it
>>> dumps on itself -- Am I missing some other required libraries here?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> John
>>>       
>> why not use java-1.6.0-openjdk provided with fedora?   it works just fine in 
>> 64bit  firefox  as a native 64bit plugin.
>>     
>
> It doesn't work for popular sites like games.yahoo.com. I wish I could
> figure out why... been trying to get it working since test3 of Fedora 8.
>
> They transferred all plugin capability to nspluginwrapper on all archs
> also, which of course doesn't even support java. I'm not entirely sure
> why/how it even shows up in about:plugins
>
> I guess I'm asking if anyone knows what magic is required for that all
> to function, has anyone gotten java to work on games.yahoo.com with
> Fedora 8/9?
>
>