Ok last meeting I did a quick lightning talk on my success in printing Digital photos at the local CVS. I was not able to use there special software, until I found out it was Java based. Well with a 64bit kernel , all my browsers are 64bit, thus no "java" and thus not working. After some digging I came across this script:
ff32_3in1_6294.tar.gz ( Please see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537 for more details ) Which allows you to install the 32bit firefox ( 3.0.1 ) on your 64bit Ubuntu system. Although it installed everything else, it did not install Java correctly, which I did install by hand ( 32bit version ) 1) d/l the 32bit Java JVM and place it in /usr/lib/jvm/ ( I renamed mine jre32_1.6.0_07 ) 2) add the symbolic link: "sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre32_1.6.0_07/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/firefox32-3/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so" 3) Test your JVM in the new firefox32-3 browser at http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp Now CVS works just fine and I can bulk upload 100+ photos when I need to. Also something cool was looking at the firefox32-3 script that starts 32bit Firefox: #!/bin/sh export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0 export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32 killall esd linux32 /usr/local/firefox32-3/firefox $@ Which shows us how to get a 32bit environment working on 64bit Ubuntu: #!/bin/sh export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/libpangohack.so.0 export GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE=/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders.32 linux32 {32bit application} If you want to get a 32bit shell ( don't want the 32bit GUI stuff ) you can thus just run "linux32" Which means that you can effectively run a 64bit kernel and still use those 32bit apps! Joe
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