java plugin

[Tom Diehl]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Knute Johnson wrote:

>> I tried the icedtea plugin which seems to work fine except with the vpn
>> software to connect to my university network. I will try it again
>> another time but i need to install the sun java. How to do this ?
>> Thanks
>
> Here's what I did on F8rc3 Live, it should work for you but please
> post back if it doesn't.
>
> How to get Sun's Java running on F8rc3
>
> As root  -
>
> 1) Download the Sun Java Linux RPM from java.sun.com and install it.
>
> 2) Fix the Xinerama bug with
>
> 	sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g'
> /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03//jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so
>
> 	Save a copy if you want to restore it to original.
>
> 3) Put the link to
>
> 	/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7libjavaplugin_oji.so into
>
> 	/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>
> 4) Install compat-libstdc++-33
>
> 5) Remove nspluginwrapper
>
> Now you should be able to compile and run Java applications, run Java
> Applets in Firefox and load and run Java Web Start programs.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254144#c14

Regards,

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