Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64

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

On 9/20/07, Dmitri Pogosyan <pogosyan@phys.ualberta.ca> wrote:
<SNIP>
> >
> > Basically, can any browser, preferably Firefox, be made functionally
> > equivalent in terms of all web-based multimedia (Java, Flash, playing
> > audio and video files, etc.) with the same browser running on Gentoo
> > 32-bit?
>
> Although I have 64-bit machine for years now, recently I completely switched to 32 bit
> firefox-bin, just found supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit firefoxes too much of a bother.
> 32-bit flash and java works OK for me.  Flash under 64-bit is I guess possible through some
> wrappers, but is a pain.
>
> Dmitri
>

HI Dmitri,
   That's essentially where I thought I was when I started this
thread. Mainly I use firefox-bin, currently version 2.0.0.6. Flash
seems to work fine. Yahoo Video as a test site, other places also.
Everything seems OK. good so far.

   As per what I think I've pieced together from this thread and the
forum link Bjorn point me toward I've done the following:

1) Unmasked the nsplugin flag for sun-jdk.

lightning ~ # cat /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
dev-java/sun-jdk -nsplugin
lightning ~ #

2) Unmasked sun-jdk

lightning ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.keywords | grep sun
dev-java/sun-jdk ~amd64
lightning ~ #

3) Built sun-jdk with nsplugin support:

lightning ~ # emerge -pv sun-jdk

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.02  USE="X alsa nsplugin -doc
-examples -jce" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #

4) Set the java-vm both system wide and for my user account to be
sun-jdk-1.6.0.02:

lightning ~ # java-config -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)      Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
2)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
*)      Sun JDK 1.6.0.02 [sun-jdk-1.6]
4)      Sun JRE 1.6.0.02 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
lightning ~ #

mark@lightning ~ $ java-config -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)      Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
2)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
*)      Sun JDK 1.6.0.02 [sun-jdk-1.6]
4)      Sun JRE 1.6.0.02 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
mark@lightning ~ $

5) Attempted to choose the correct nsplugin but nothing is there for
either root or my account:

lightning ~ # eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
lightning ~ #

mark@lightning ~ $ eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
mark@lightning ~ $

   It seems I'm sort of stuck at this last step.

Thanks,
Mark
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