Re: [gentoo-amd64] Java on AMD64

[Mark Knecht]

On 9/20/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 20. September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > It has been a long time since I've looked at Java on my AMD64 machine.
> > I run into links, etc., and they don't work. It was frustrating two
> > years ago. It just didn't work. On my machine still it doesn't, but
> > maybe this is because I haven't tried to fix it in a long time, so...
> >
> > Here's a link with some Java on the page:
> >
> > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html
> >
> > I get the typical white box with a jigsaw puzzle piece asking me to
> > 'Click here to download plugin' and then a message about JRE missing.
>
> works perfectly fine for me.
>
> >
> > I currently use Blackdown but notice this 'virtual' JRE is Sun. That
> > all seems a bit strange.
>
> Blackdown sucks. Really. It is bad.
>
> >
> >
> > I thought that before I invested too much time I'd ask if there is
> > anyone who makes pages like the one above work and what you have
> > installed.
> >
>
> java-config -L
> The following VMs are available for generation-2:
> 1)      Blackdown 32bit JRE 1.4.2.03 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.4.2]
> 2)      Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
> 3)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
> *)      Sun JDK 1.6.0.02 [sun-jdk-1.6]
>
> So I am using the 1.6 jdk from Sun
>
> browser is Konqueror from KDE 3.5.7
> No special settings.
> Java enabled in the settings menu.
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I switched before I got your reply to the Sun 32-bit JRE. That failed:

mark@lightning ~ $ java-config -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)      Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2]
*)      Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
3)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
4)      Sun JRE 1.6.0.02 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
mark@lightning ~ $

I tried switching both the system VM and my local VM to the
sun-jre-bin but that failed also:

mark@lightning ~ $ java-config -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)      Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2]
2)      Sun 32bit JRE 1.6.0.02 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.6]
3)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 [sun-jdk-1.5]
*)      Sun JRE 1.6.0.02 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
mark@lightning ~ $

   I notice you are using the JDK, not the JRE. Would it be worth me
installing that?

   I'd love to hear from another Firefox user just to be sure it's not
something to do with the browser since you used Konqueror.

Thanks!

- Mark
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