DAG Repos

Mark Haney markh at uptimecomputer.net
Mon Mar 28 19:33:39 UTC 2005


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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:22 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: DAG Repos

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.

Does the jpackage version work with Firefox in FC3?


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