From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQ3CD-0006hI-VS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:18:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 521C6E049E; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFF7E049E for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 2946C21DA96 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:18:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D3421DB24 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:18:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.11) with ESMTPSA id 40344114 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:18:21 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java? Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:18:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28r4; KDE/4.2.60; x86_64; ; ) References: <49bf44f10901220734g3cff1184g9e889532746c8537@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0901220853n3746b118q79066bad8ca0b8dc@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10901220901x4471ca15id03fd55c099d453e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901220901x4471ca15id03fd55c099d453e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901221818.18262.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.5 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: c2d57e8e-68aa-497e-a923-9562955fe1de X-Archives-Hash: ab185ac58f5b096d7e7ddc676613b820 On Donnerstag 22 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: > >>>> I recently switched from firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper to 64-bit > >>>> firefox and the latest flash, and I just realized java no longer > >>>> works. Do I need to go back to firefox-bin and nspluginwrapper for > >>>> java to work? > >>> > >>> Which java are you using? Sun's java didn't have a 64-bit browser > >>> plug-in until very recently. > >>> > >>> http://blogs.sun.com/joshis/entry/finally_it_s_here_java > >> > >> That sounds great. Is it set up in portage yet? If so, can you tell > >> me a package name? > > > > Not that I know of, it hasn't been released yet (still beta). I've > > read on the www that you can extract just the libnpjp2.so file from > > the archive and drop it in on top of your current sun-jre > > installation, then make a symlink to it your firefox plugins > > directory. I haven't actually tried it as I can't remember the last > > time I ran into java on the web. > > Thank you, I'll keep an eye on that. > > - Grant or just use konqueror which does not need java-plugin to display&use java since it can use java directly.