Re: [gentoo-java] Online-banking on 64Bit system needs Sun-Java

[Joshua Nichols]

Jon Severinsson wrote:
> Blackdown java is based on sun java sources, and has a ns-plugin, so
> it'll work (unless they require java 1.5, in which case you'll have to
> manually install the 32 bit version of sun-jdk-1.5).
>
> Stephan Palm skrev:
> >>
> >> I'm trying to install a java-plugin for firefox on a 64Bit system
> in order to
> >> be able to do online-banking. It has to be sun-java, since that is
> the one
> >> required by the bank. Does anyone have any suggestions on that?
> >>

You know, there is a 64 bit version of sun-jdk-1.5... Before unmasking
and installing, please be sure to read
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml about the concerns of
using a 1.5 jdk. If you don't need the development tools (ie compiler),
you can also try sun-jre-bin-1.5.


-Josh
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