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Dodec Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 115
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject: Firefox Flash/Java plugin issues |
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I recently installed Firefox on my system, and have been trying to install the Flash and Java plugins. When I follow the instructions at http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-flash-plugin-view-videos-animations-games , everything goes fine until I try to get back into Firefox, at which point I get an error saying "Failed to add a plugin to the panel: no running instance of xfce4-panel was found". I attempted to install the Java plugin both before and after this. Before, neither FIrefox nor Java's website recognized its existence even though I had already downloaded and unpacked it (I now think this may have been due to a mistake on my part, although I'm not entirely certain), and after, either due to the Flash plugin issues or its own error, I just get the same message as previously stated. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know. |
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mocsokmike Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 120 Location: Budapest, Hungary
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Do you have www-plugins/adobe-flash installed? That was enough for me.
As for java, post the output of:
_________________ format c:
emerge system |
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Dodec Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 115
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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I don't see anything saying www-plugins/adobe-flash in any of my Downloads subfolders or anything, so I'm assuming I don't have it. (Perhaps this may be the root of the xfce4-panel error?) As for java-config -L, all I got was: Code: |
-bash: java-config: command not found |
I presume this means that my attempted Java installation somehow didn't work. |
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mocsokmike Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 120 Location: Budapest, Hungary
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Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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To install the flash plugin, run this command:
Code: | emerge www-plugins/adobe-flash |
To install the Java VM do this:
Code: | emerge dev-java/sun-jre-bin |
it will return a message similar to this:
Code: | Fetch instructions for dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.33-r1:
* Due to Oracle no longer providing the distro-friendly DLJ bundles, the package
* has become fetch restricted again. Alternatives are switching to
* dev-java/icedtea-bin:6 or the source-based dev-java/icedtea:6
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* Please download jre-6u33-linux-x64.bin from:
* http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre6-downloads-1637595.html
* and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles |
Do as it says, download the mentinoed file from the given URL, and save it to /usr/portage/distfiles, then run the emerge command again:
Code: | emerge dev-java/sun-jre-bin |
To check your Java installation, use the java-config -L command again. It should return your newly installed Java version. _________________ format c:
emerge system |
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forrestfunk81 Guru
Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 565 Location: münchen.de
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Take a look at the Gentoo Java guide. You might consider using oracle-jre-bin instead of sun-jre. Sun JRE is the Java SE 6 version whereas Oracle JRE is Java SE 7. _________________ # cd /pub/
# more beer |
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Dodec Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Jul 2012 Posts: 115
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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Firefox started working again even before I installed Java, which is odd but nice. Strangely enough, though, now when I run java-config -L, even though I emerged dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin, the output says that the only VM available on my system is icedtea-bin-6. I don't think it's the same thing, but at this point any Java is good Java as long as it works, so I'm going with it. Thank you both! |
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