On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 02:19:37PM +0100, Alejandro Muñoz Fernández wrote: > Terry Shannon dijo: > > | I did learn alot today. How to create a deb package from another > | archive. The file is in the IBM jre 1.5 archive, so I may give that a > | try, although the java-package 0.24 doesn't list it as supported. Guess > | I could update to 0.27, been there today and done that. > > Hi! > > I've successfully installed "ibm-java2-sdk-50-linux-ppc.tgz" a long time ago > and it's got a java browser plugin, but it's still a bit buggy because some > applets fail. > > That's what I did to make the plugin work on my computer (after installing > ibm-java2-sdk-50-linux-ppc.tgz): > > 1) I made a sym link from > /opt/ibm-java2-ppc-50/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so to > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so > and /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
.. aditionally -- not being sure about it -- I think here, on Debian unstable it was a good idea to also create a symlink to mozilla-snapshot: ln -s --force -i /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-snapshot/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so > > 2) Then, I executed: > > # update-alternatives --config java > > and chose /opt/ibm-java2-ppc-50/bin/java > > It works if I use Konqueror, Mozilla and Firefox, but it doesn't if I use > Opera. Yes, same being true here for Konqueror, Mozilla and Firefox (I don't have Opera installed), but I also had to add the Java path to my ~/.bash_profile: The $PATH setting now looks like this in there: PATH=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/jre/bin/:~/bin:"${PATH}" After installing the debianised package please also see file:///usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/docs/en/sdkandruntimeguide.lnx.en.htm#pathcons for this. > > You can try to make theese steps, close the browser, and open it again to > make > it rescan de plugins and go to the java test page > (http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml) to check if it works. Positive. Konqueror, Mozilla and Firefox all work with the page above and the IBM Java ... :) (Except that I didn't even have to restart Firefox to see a working Java. IIRC ... :) And for those intending to install a debianised package (probably will will make things much easier) of the IBM Java tarball. Something like: fakeroot make-jpkg --full-name "Your Name" --email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --changes ibm-java2-sdk-50-linux-ppc.tgz HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer: /ICQ: 286585973/ + + + /AIM: crashinglinux/ http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]