I finally got a chance to test this on a clean 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) install.
I began by apt-get'ing the icedtea6-plugin, which pulls in a lot of other packages such as the OpenJDK version of Java. A simple 3d plot would not render in JMOL in the notebook, though the black square did have a JMOL logo in one corner, so there was some progress. Sun/Oracle version is in the Canonical partner repository. So I remove'd the packages I'd just installed and at a command-line: sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun- java6-fonts After this, the 3d plot worked fine with JMOL. If you've been trying other things, the following commands (or variants) might be useful/ needed: pre-intall: sudo apt-get autoremove openjdk-6-jre post-install: sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun Rob -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
