Does anyone know if the folks at Sun have put out a jre version to work with the x86_64 version of CentOS? If not, is there even any possibility of it occuring?
Thanks..
Sam
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 14:01 -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Does anyone know if the folks at Sun have put out a jre version to work with the x86_64 version of CentOS? If not, is there even any possibility of it occuring?
Blackdown has an x86_64 version of 1.4.2-02 here:
ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/blackdown/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/02/
Am Mi, den 02.11.2005 schrieb Sam Drinkard um 20:01:
Does anyone know if the folks at Sun have put out a jre version to work with the x86_64 version of CentOS? If not, is there even any possibility of it occuring?
Sam
They have it available since severals months:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
Do I miss something with your mail and question?
I recommend to use jpackage.org to build an RPM which best conforms CentOS/RHEL:
http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=3033
I did so myself on x86_64 already this spring.
Alexander
Quoting Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org:
They have it available since severals months:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
Do I miss something with your mail and question?
I recommend to use jpackage.org to build an RPM which best conforms CentOS/RHEL:
http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=3033
I did so myself on x86_64 already this spring.
Looking at the spec file, they specifically disable Java plugin for Mozilla/Firefox on x86_64.
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Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Quoting Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org:
They have it available since severals months:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
Do I miss something with your mail and question?
I recommend to use jpackage.org to build an RPM which best conforms CentOS/RHEL:
http://www.jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=3033
I did so myself on x86_64 already this spring.
Looking at the spec file, they specifically disable Java plugin for Mozilla/Firefox on x86_64.
I figured something was up, as after installing and creating the symbolic link, when I tried to access a page that requires the javascript, the browser vanishes entirely.. not even a momentary pause or error message.. just quits like you'd hit the X button!
Any other way to get java support into firefox short of building the thing which I really don't want to do ?
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Sam Drinkard enlightened us:
I figured something was up, as after installing and creating the symbolic link, when I tried to access a page that requires the javascript, the browser vanishes entirely.. not even a momentary pause or error message.. just quits like you'd hit the X button!
Any other way to get java support into firefox short of building the thing which I really don't want to do ?
AFAIK there is no 64-bit plugin. The current recommended solution is to remove the 64-bit version of firefox, and install the 32-bit version. You'll have to do it by hand, because the 32-bit version isn't included in the x86_64 repository.
Matt
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Sam Drinkard enlightened us:
I figured something was up, as after installing and creating the symbolic link, when I tried to access a page that requires the javascript, the browser vanishes entirely.. not even a momentary pause or error message.. just quits like you'd hit the X button!
Any other way to get java support into firefox short of building the thing which I really don't want to do ?
AFAIK there is no 64-bit plugin. The current recommended solution is to remove the 64-bit version of firefox, and install the 32-bit version. You'll have to do it by hand, because the 32-bit version isn't included in the x86_64 repository.
Matt
Matt, that is the same conclusion I came to several months back after going thru all the motions of installing the jre-1.5xx, but at that time I believe I found something that said there was not 64-bit support. I thought after reading a page on the Sun java website, it was now available. Guess that was for mozilla and not firefox.
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:47:32PM -0500, Sam Drinkard enlightened us:
Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Sam Drinkard enlightened us:
I figured something was up, as after installing and creating the symbolic link, when I tried to access a page that requires the javascript, the browser vanishes entirely.. not even a momentary pause or error message.. just quits like you'd hit the X button!
Any other way to get java support into firefox short of building the thing which I really don't want to do ?
AFAIK there is no 64-bit plugin. The current recommended solution is to remove the 64-bit version of firefox, and install the 32-bit version. You'll have to do it by hand, because the 32-bit version isn't included in the x86_64 repository.
Matt
Matt, that is the same conclusion I came to several months back after going thru all the motions of installing the jre-1.5xx, but at that time I believe I found something that said there was not 64-bit support. I thought after reading a page on the Sun java website, it was now available. Guess that was for mozilla and not firefox.
There is a 64-bit JRE/JDK, there's just not a 64-bit browser plugin (that I am aware of, anyway).
Matt
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:40 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote:
AFAIK there is no 64-bit plugin. The current recommended solution is to remove the 64-bit version of firefox, and install the 32-bit version. You'll have to do it by hand, because the 32-bit version isn't included in the x86_64 repository.
A while back someone mentioned that IBM has a beta x86_64 JDK/JRE out: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/ I checked the JDK rpm but could not find any file with plugin in its name so I guess that one will not work also. Anyone with experience installing Firefox 32bit & dependencies want to share how to do it?
Regards, Patrick
Quoting Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net:
I figured something was up, as after installing and creating the symbolic link, when I tried to access a page that requires the javascript, the browser vanishes entirely.. not even a momentary pause or error message.. just quits like you'd hit the X button! Any other way to get java support into firefox short of building the thing which I really don't want to do ?
Errr... you mean Java, not JavaScript, right?
Yup, I noticed same thing too. Some simple demo applets worked OK (hey I got nice looking fractal and my browser survived), other more complex would make browser to instantly crash. Probably going to disable plugin. Also, probably the reason jpackage folks disabled it in the spec file (or maybe Sun does not even ship it for the very same reasons)...
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Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Errr... you mean Java, not JavaScript, right?
Yup, I noticed same thing too. Some simple demo applets worked OK (hey I got nice looking fractal and my browser survived), other more complex would make browser to instantly crash. Probably going to disable plugin. Also, probably the reason jpackage folks disabled it in the spec file (or maybe Sun does not even ship it for the very same reasons)...
Yep.. java, not javascript. Just was perusing Dag's site, and I don't even see a "late" version of i-386 firefox. Think the latest version was less than 1, or maybe 1.0x-something. From a previous post some time back on the same thread, it would appear to me that the upstream provider either should drop the x86-64 version of firefox and go to the 386 version. I don't know of any reason anyone would *need* the 64-bit version....
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Errr... you mean Java, not JavaScript, right?
Yup, I noticed same thing too. Some simple demo applets worked OK (hey I got nice looking fractal and my browser survived), other more complex would make browser to instantly crash. Probably going to disable plugin. Also, probably the reason jpackage folks disabled it in the spec file (or maybe Sun does not even ship it for the very same reasons)...
Yep.. java, not javascript. Just was perusing Dag's site, and I don't even see a "late" version of i-386 firefox. Think the latest version was less than 1, or maybe 1.0x-something. From a previous post some time back on the same thread, it would appear to me that the upstream provider either should drop the x86-64 version of firefox and go to the 386 version. I don't know of any reason anyone would *need* the 64-bit version....
Roger that last observation. There was much traffic on the SuSE AMD64 list earlier this year about plugin problems w/ 64-bit browsers. Solution: use the 32-bit browser. Plugins work AOK, *NO* performance problems, everything just works, smooth as silk .... You *DO* have to get the 32-bit libraries correctly installed & located, but after that, you are off to the races :-).
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