[gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

It has been a long time since I've looked at Java on my AMD64 machine.
I run into links, etc., and they don't work. It was frustrating two
years ago. It just didn't work. On my machine still it doesn't, but
maybe this is because I haven't tried to fix it in a long time, so...

Here's a link with some Java on the page:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html

I get the typical white box with a jigsaw puzzle piece asking me to
'Click here to download plugin' and then a message about JRE missing.

I currently use Blackdown but notice this 'virtual' JRE is Sun. That
all seems a bit strange.

lightning ~ # eix -I jre
[I] dev-java/blackdown-jre
     Available versions:  (1.4.2)  1.4.2.03-r14
        {nsplugin}
     Installed versions:  1.4.2.03-r14(1.4.2)(01:56:19 AM 06/02/2007)(-nsplugin)
     Homepage:            http://www.blackdown.org
     Description:         Blackdown Java Runtime Environment

[U] virtual/jre
     Available versions:
        (1.4)   1.4.1 1.4.2
        (1.5)   1.5.0
        (1.6)   1.6.0
     Installed versions:  1.5.0(1.5)(10:30:16 PM 06/01/2007)
     Homepage:            http://java.sun.com/
     Description:         Virtual for JRE

Found 2 matches.
lightning ~ #

I thought that before I invested too much time I'd ask if there is
anyone who makes pages like the one above work and what you have
installed.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark
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