FC8/IcedTea Java Plugin/FireFox/R
Knute Johnson
knute at frazmtn.com
Tue Dec 11 04:48:46 UTC 2007
>OK folks. Here is what I did to get the R java search applet working.
>
>Note that this is on 32 bit F8, not 64 bit. Make any appropriate
>adjustments as required.
>
>1. Remove Iced Tea
>
> sudo yum remove java-1.7.0-icedtea-*
>
>
>2. Go to the java.sun.com web site and secure the appropriate JRE
>download. In my case, it was:
>
> jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
>
>
>3. Set the above to be executable:
>
> chmod +x jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
>
>
>4. Run and install the above as root:
>
> sudo ./jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
>
>
>5. Create the symlink to the JRE plugin:
>
> cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
> ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
>
>
>6. Be sure that you have no Firefox sessions open. If you do, close them all.
>
>
>7. In R, type
>
> help.start()
>
>
>8. In the new Firefox session, click on the "Search Engine & Keywords" link
>
>
>9. Pay attention to the lower left hand corner of the Firefox status
>line. If all went well, you should see:
>
> Applet SearchEngine started
>
>indicating that all should be well. Just to check, enter a keyword
>(eg. 'plot') and hit the search button.
>
>HTH. It is working for me here.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Marc Schwartz
I have a couple of questions;
Do you have compat-libstdc++-33 installed?
Did you do the Xinerama fix?
Why did you take out iced-tea?
Thanks very much,
--
Knute Johnson
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