Can't get nsplugin from blackdown?

Hamsterkill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 81

Hi, I've got nsplugin in my make.conf but can't seem to emerge blackdown with it active. I see nothing in the ebuild as to why it would force nsplugin off for 64bit.

here is what emerge -pv blackdown-jdk gives:

didymos · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:26 am Post subject:

That's because the ebuild doesn't force flags on or off. That's determined by the profile. If you want nsplugin, you'll have to install another JDK/JRE. You should anyway, as plenty of stuff uses 1.5 and 1.6. Just use the ones from sun. If you're using firefox-bin, then you'll have to install the emul versions.
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Hamsterkill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 81

I am not using firefox-bin and as far as I've read everywhere blackdown is the only jdk/jre that has a 64bit nsplugin for java. Believe me, I'd rather use a sun nsplugin but until openjdk 1.7 comes out from there I blackdown is only 64bit option.

didymos · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:52 am Post subject:

Hmm. That's annoying.

OK, here it is:

Hamsterkill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 81

didymos · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:42 am Post subject:

That's because it's not in there. It's in the base profile (and I mean base, like top-level base). It should work. I tested it before posting.

[edit] OK, I screwed up. That'll teach me to cut and paste. The directory where you're supposed to put the file is /etc/portage/profile. At least I didn't tell you to put it in /usr/portage/profiles; that's something.
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Hamsterkill · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 81

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Moved from Gentoo on AMD64 to Duplicate Threads, as this was previously discussed in "Removing the 64-bit Java browser plugin".