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MalleRIM
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Gentoo Java Guide request |
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Hi,
I'm a little confused because of all this different Java stuff. There are quite a few Java packages and different implementations of JRE. Theres open-jdk, sun-jdk, icedtea browser plugin for 64bit...
can someone put all this stuff in a nutshell and give a few explanations of different ways to get a working and/or free and/or fully 64bit capable (browser plugin) Java? Or post a link?
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alex.blackbit
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| if you only want to have a usable java plugin for your browser to run applets than you do not need a jdk, which is a development kit. you only need a jre, which is the runtime environment. i personally use sun-jre-bin:1.6 with the nsplugin useflag to use it in firefox, e.g. to run appgate mindterm. i have a 32 bit machine, but since this package has the amd64 keyword i think that should work for you too. |
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d2_racing
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| If you don't know and you just want to have java, you can install this package : virtual/jdk |
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MalleRIM
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| alex.blackbit wrote: | | if you only want to have a usable java plugin for your browser to run applets than you do not need a jdk, which is a development kit. you only need a jre, which is the runtime environment. i personally use sun-jre-bin:1.6 with the nsplugin useflag to use it in firefox, e.g. to run appgate mindterm. i have a 32 bit machine, but since this package has the amd64 keyword i think that should work for you too. |
There is in fact a 64bit Version of Sun-Java but it's lacking the browser plugin. At the moment I am using icedtea-bin since I'm not able to make icedtea compile. |
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