I cant' figure out how to work around this --- I tried the symlinking to ~/.mozilla/plugins solution that Bogdan suggested above (only I'm on a 32bit machine so the path is different), but it doesn't work here.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Bogdan Gribincea <bogdan.gribin...@gmail.com > wrote: > To make it work with Firefox 3.5+ on Karmic x64 i had to do the > following: > > - sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin > - sudo aptitude purge openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless > openjdk-6-jre-lib icedtea6-plugin > - mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins && ln -s > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so > ~/.mozilla/plugins > > Voila. > > One thing to note is that the plugin did get loaded in Firefox 3.0.x > without this 'fix'. So, I guess the plugin doesn't have the correct > symlinks to make it work with 3.5+ > > -- > karmic beta1: Sun Java plugin does not load > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440478 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 > > I installed sun-java6-jdk and sun-java6-plugin. Firefox doesn't load the > plugin, but shows a light-gray square where the applet should be. > > I tried to: > * rename my ~/.mozilla/firefox directory, so Firefox would use default > settings > * Change the plugin via the "manage content plugins" menu option > * create a symlink to > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my > ~/.mozilla/plugins directory > > Neither worked. > > Perhaps related: I had some weird problem with installing sun-java6-sdk > after updating my machine to karmic (alpha 5 ath the time) from jaunty; I > had to manually uninstall the sun-java6-plugin package and THEN run "apt-get > autoremove" before apt-get could work out the dependencies to install the > -jdk package. > > Any idea how to fix / debug this? > -- karmic beta1: Sun Java plugin does not load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
