DAG Repos

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Mar 28 19:22:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Haney wrote:

> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:21 +0100, Ted Wager wrote:
>>
>>> Just installed f/c 3 then fetched and installed apt and synaptic.
>>> Could someone let me know the repo address of the dag site so I can
>>> easily install the java jre stuff...
>>
>>
>> See: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
>>
>> Paul.
>
>
> Thanks for the info
>   Just got the j2re from dag's site using synaptic but when I test it
> out on a java site firefox crashes completely....Wonder if anyone else
> has this problem ??
>
> Yep.  I get it as well.  I was experiencing a similar issue with Sun's
> RPM for 1.5.0 or whatever the latest was.  Firefox refused to open with
> the 1.5.0 plugin symlinked.  When I got the 1.4.2 from he DAG repo, I
> got Firefox to open to my homepage (Slashdot) but going to a site with
> Java (Noggin.com) Firefox dies very badly.  It seems I cannot get any
> Java plugin to work with Firefox now.

The best source for Java for FC is jpackage.org.  A bit of a learning 
curve, but it generally works much better than the Sun RPMs.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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