Re: [gentoo-user] 64-bit Firefox + java?

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> Use icedtea from the java-overlay. Works beautifully for me on ff3
>
> Pariksheet

I'd like to give that a try but I get:

# emerge icedtea6
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2  USE="nsplugin -cacao
-debug -doc -examples -javascript -pulseaudio -shark -zero"
 * Error: circular dependencies:
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') depends on
  ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') (hard)
 * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
 * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.

Does anyone know how to resolve this?  I tried disabling the nsplugin
USE flag with the same result.

- Grant


>>> >>>> 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.