Hi On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:12:15PM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: > 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
I cannot respond to this soon, perhaps someone else can join this bug on launchpad. It is a bug I filed after first finding this. I fot this reply today to test a personal package archive package which might solve it. Add the personal package archive, and test the openjdk-6 in there. From: Matthias Klose <@canonical.com> Subject: [Bug 579183] Re: jmol not working Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:49:47 -0000 please could you recheck with the openjdk-6 packages in deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openjdk/ppa/ubuntu lucid main ** Changed in: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- jmol not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579183 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber +of the bug. regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- 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
