Firefox in 32-bit chroot [solved without chroot!]

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mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:07 am

did you install the entire 32 bit JRE or just use the plugin with the 64 bit JRE?

mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:14 am

welp.. wasn't 64 bit JRE as that didn't work

edit: extracting 32 bit JRE to /opt/sun-jre-1.5.0/ didn't work either...

could you please explain in more detail how you got this to work?

hartmutg · Post by **hartmutg** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:39 am

I took sun-jre-1.5.0 from here:

http://192.18.97.244/ECom/EComTicketSer ... x-i586.bin

saved
chmod +x jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
./jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin

This extracts to jre1.5.0

Moved the dir to /opt

cd ~/mozilla/plugins
ln -s /opt/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Where is your problem?

Vermyndax · Post by **Vermyndax** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:52 pm

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Look there on that site - there is a Sun J2RE 1.5 for AMD64!

Suppose we should report that to the portage guys and get them on it?

...on second thought, that doesn't get us anywhere. We need 32-bit. I'm trying it now.

Vermyndax · Post by **Vermyndax** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:58 pm

Oh yeah, it worked!

Note to above: I couldn't extract the 32-bit 1.4.2 from Sun's site either (from www.java.com) - you have to get 1.5.0 from www.sun.com for this trick to work.

Awesome awesome awesome!

mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:17 pm

AWESOME! It worked. I was copying the plugin before rather than linking it. Also, I'd renamed the directory to sun-jre-1.5.0... one of these must have been the problem. Thanks a bunch!

mooseboy · Post by **mooseboy** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:26 pm

something else I noticed: if you install another jdk/jre in addition (i.e. have a 64 bit blackdown and 32 bit sun java for firefox-bin 32 bit), the symlink to the plugin disappears when you install that other jdk/jre

Firefox in 32-bit chroot [solved without chroot!]

I'll be...

Yep!