installation of Java on Fedora 9 x86_64

[natousayni]

After a long time looking for a solution in order to install JAva on a 64bits installation of Fedora 9, i've found one, and give it to you here (thx Andreia).
all the tutoz i've found until now didn't work. It's that the diference was made by the installation of the library libXtst.i386 and the creation of a nez directory for firefox plugins. Curtam !

#add i386 repository
#create and edit the configuration file of the repo

gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-i386.repo


#copy and paste those infomations in that file and save it

[fedora-i386]
name=Fedora $releasever - i386
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/i386/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
includepkgs=firefox
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
#
[updates-i386]
name=Fedora $releasever - i386 - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/i386/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
includepkgs=firefox
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

# remove the default java installation

yum -y erase java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.0.6-openjdk-plugin

# remove the default Firefox installation (64bits)

yum -y erase firefox.x86_64

# install Firefox 32bits

yum -y install firefox.i386

# add this library

yum -y install libXtst.i386

# download java

www.java.com/en/download
escolher Linux RPM (self-extracting file) filesize: 18.32 MB

# install the .bin

chmod +x jre*
sh ./jre*

# make the links with firefox plugins

mkdir -p /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins
ln-s /usr/java/jre*/plugins/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

[jsalvo]

Err .... what is exactly wrong with openjdk that comes with fedora9 x86_64 ?
Mine works fine, even on sites that requires Java applets.

[marcrblevins]

You should not jink with your yum repo files, put it back where it was.

Try this link:
http://easylife.dulinux.com/

[natousayni]

jsalvo : please try that applet ; www.bb.com.br ; the virtual keyboard doesn work good with openjdk
and some application of face book too...
marcrblevins : for those applications, that solution where the only i found and where completely posted nowhere, so i posted it, and choosed fedora forums because that i thought that should be the place where people should look first. know i doubt about that. make me happy and get yourself a windows so you should enjoy call every one a jinker !
greetings

[HayZam]

ok , after doing all the steps above , i still cant play games @ www.pogo.com ...

and its asking me to install the java plugins

any ideas ?

[Dangermouse]

Hi try this should install and set up sun java for you

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=171660

[HayZam]

thanks alot ...
but i still cant run java applets , nor JNLP files ...

[JonathanLong]

hi,


thanks alot ...
but i still cant run java applets , nor JNLP files ...

[tdfranc]

I was looking for a solution too,
I found out that sun has released a plugin for x86_64,
see: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html#java-sun

[axiopisty]

I was looking for a solution too,
I found out that sun has released a plugin for x86_64,
see: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html#java-sun

Thanks tdfranc,
This took me forever to find. I kept trying to create a symlink for libjavaplugin_jni.so

For everyone running sun's version of java on x86_64, following the instructions on this site worked for me!

[Panoz]

Sun's java plugin installation:

# echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/local/jdk
# cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
# ln -s /usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so .

Nothing more!

[spiderfish]

thanks alot ...
but i still cant run java applets on my site , nor JNLP files ...

I continue too, I can't make it work with java applet