Howto: IcedTea 64bit java plugin (the ugly way)

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

how do i install it on a 32bit distrib?
what do i have to change in the ebuild other than the SRC_URI and the KEYWORDS for the binary?

oRDeX · Veteran Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 1325 Location: Italy

why should you install icedtea on a 32bit distrib?? :roll:

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

b33fc0d3 · Retired Dev Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 128

Ok, I've been following this thread for a while. Firstly, these redhat binaries don't work for everyone, and this could be for various reasons (library versions, gcc ...). I've been working on getting IcedTea to compile from source and have succeeded it seems.

I'll be making a source based ebuild soon as I refine the build process, it currently requires gcj to be installed (but it's not used as the compiler). Also, only tested using sun-jdk-1.7.0.0_alpha24 as the compiler.

http://b33fc0d3.googlecode.com/files/GNOME-2.2x-javaplugin-x86_64.png

jonnevers · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

b33fc0d3 · Retired Dev Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 128

For my 100th post,

I give you an ebuild to compile icedtea-1.4.

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gimpel · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately I still haven't been able to successfully compile IcedTea.
Last try was with today's hg pull (b24 based).

So.. I bumped the ebuild for icedtea-bin to b24 from fedora9 development.
http://gimpel.ath.cx/svn/gimpel/dev-java/icedtea-bin/

I'll take a look at their .spec file how the freaking heck they compiled it

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j79zlr · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:10 am Post subject:

Do you have a source for that rpm, I can't seem to find it. I too can't get icedtea to compile.

gimpel · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:14 am Post subject:

networkorg · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Buenos Aires

networkorg · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Buenos Aires

j79zlr · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject:

The weird thing is that b19 is found and works, just can't get the updated b24 rpm.

gimpel · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

I can't find any 1.7 jdk on their servers anymore o.O

But there are things like ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat.com/fedora/linux/development/x86_64/os/Packages/java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.5.b06.fc9.x86_64.rpm which seems to be a 1.6 64bit browser plugin.

Maybe they just renamed things?
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j79zlr · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject:

I found some here:

http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/

I will try to mod the ebuild and see if I can get that to work by changing fedora_v to

FEDORA_V="1.7.0.0-0.23.b24.fc9.x86_64"

gimpel · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

cool.
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j79zlr · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject:

Just tried it, I edited the ebuild and it fetched and installed fine but didn't work. I am just gonna stick with b19 until this really gets fixed.

networkorg · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Buenos Aires

Hi,

b19 works for me also fine (with map24.com) but with other older applets I will get problems - as example like old nitendo games from www.virtualnes.com which need plugin >1.5 :lol:

bye
schef

networkorg · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2006 Posts: 74 Location: Buenos Aires

Hmm,

has anyone an idea where javaws (Webstart Launcher) was left in java/icedtea 1.7 ?? Surely it seems more that javaws is only available in 32bit but I don't found it in 64bit versions.

Before every time I used javaws from Blackdown 1.4 but now I must use >=1.6 for a application. Maybe the name was changed but I don't found any information about this.

bye
schef

Shazam · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject:

Hi there!

I used the 1.7.0 ebuild from:

svn co http://gimpel.ath.cx/svn/gimpel/dev-java/icedtea-bin/

and commented out the dependency for gcc, because I only wanted the java plugin. And I must say it worked fine. I'm still at gcc-4.1 w/o the gcj flag.

instead of going through the hassle of compiling a masked gcc with the gcj flag. Because I think the majority of users only want the java plugin, and not necessarily compile java applications.

cheers :twisted:

muhsinzubeir · l33t Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 948 Location: /home/muhsin

ive spent one day learning how to install from overlays...en finally icedtea-bin and the one 9999 from java-experimental compiled but i keep failed javatest http://javatester.org/version.html

here is java-config -L:

rada · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

Use icedtea6, it's based off of openjdk6.

muhsinzubeir · l33t Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 948 Location: /home/muhsin

j79zlr · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject:

I have created a new ebuild for openjdk-bin from the latest fedora core 10 development version. Can be found here:

http://j79zlr.com/portage/dev-java/openjdk-bin/

upengan78 · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 711 Location: IL

Can someone please write the steps to get java/jre plugin to work with firefox in amd64

I think from the very first post in this thread a lot of things have changed and procedure *now* must be simple than mentioned in first post.

Thanks in advance..

gimpel · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: