FC8/IcedTea Java Plugin/FireFox/R

[Marc Schwartz]

Knute Johnson <knute <at> frazmtn.com> writes:

> 
> >"Knute Johnson" <knute <at> frazmtn.com> writes:>
> >
> ><snip of my content>
> >
> >> I have a couple of questions;
> >>
> >> Do you have compat-libstdc++-33 installed?
> >
> >Yes.  Relevance?
> 
> Because as far as I can tell the Sun plugin will not work without it. 
>  I don't know what other things require it but I always have to 
> install it to get the Sun plugin to work.  I was just curious if you 
> had it installed.

I had not made the connection, but it would appear that you are correct.

I removed the RPM and indeed, the R java applet no longer functions. Within the
R console, error messages appear regarding the lack of libstdc++.so.5, which is
one of the two files in the aforementioned RPM.

Re-installation of the RPM, which has no other dependencies, enables the R java
applet to again function.

> >> Did you do the Xinerama fix?
> >
> >I don't use Xinerama, but do use TwinView.  Is there something that I am
> >missing?
> >
> >> Why did you take out iced-tea?
> >
> >The first thing that I checked was to see what dependencies there were
> >for IcedTea. There were none, so I removed it, rather than attempting a
> >more "kludgy" fix. 
> >
> >So far, I have not noted any missing functionality and I don't do any
> >Java development. So until something I need comes up broken, I'll stay
> >with this approach.
> 
> It is possible to have both iced-tea and Sun's java installed and 
> functioning correctly.  I use the JPackage utilities to do the setup 
> for alternatives.  It makes it very easy to switch Javas.
> 
> I am very curious about the Xinerama bug.  That is fixed?

It would appear so, with the latest libxcb yum update...
 
> I did a web page that describes how to configure F8 for both Javas.
> 
> http://www.knutejohnson.com/sun-java-on-F8.html

Thanks Knute.

BTW, I have filed a Bugzilla entry on this issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420781

Regards,

Marc