Impossible to run Sun Java plugin on 64-bit Fedora 9/10?

Deepak Bhole dbhole at redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 18:02:13 UTC 2008


* Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> [2008-10-21 13:36]:
> Deepak Bhole wrote:
>> * Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> [2008-10-21 12:42]:
>>> Looks like -
>>>
>>> * no firefox.i386 for x86_64 Fedora
>>> * nspluginwrapper does not handle Sun java plugin
>>>
>>> So, no Sun Java plugin for x86_64 Fedora 9?  Is that correct?
>>>
>>
>> Right, no 32-bit firefox would mean no Sun Java plugin. There will still 
>> be an OpenJDK plugin which will be available for x86_64 however.
>
> Got it.  Unfortunately, I'm trying to work around 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200 which is a show 
> stopper for us.
>

Talk about timing! I am working on fixing that very bug right now
:) It is a parsing issue on plugin side, and I am fairly certain it is 
resolvable by F10. I'll let you know once I have fixed it.

Cheers,
Deepak

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