* Gerrit Jan Eldering <gj.eldering@quicknet.nl> [2007-11-11 09:36]:

I just have a new computer with amd64... All is working fine, but there is no 64 bit java webbrowser plugin....

There's classpath-webplugin. Works for most webpages.

Is there a way to get it working?

You can also install the 32-bit Firefox and the 32-bit Java plugin. The Java plugin doesn't work (contrary to Flash) with the nsspluginwrapper.

Or are the developing a new plugin?

Ask Sun. :-) Thanks, Bernhard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org

In case someone is interested: we use the following spec file to compile the latest java releases as RPMs, both for i586 and x86_64. The x86_64 installs the i586 stuff, too, so that we have the plugin and webstart, and puts the plugin into /usr/lib/browser-plugins (as is used in SuSE). We also maintain the /usr/lib/java link and have a /etc/profile.d/myjava.sh with [ -L "/usr/lib64/java" ] && export PATH=/usr/lib64/java/bin:${PATH} || export PATH=/usr/lib/java/bin:${PATH} This way we can install the latest releases from Sun while still having the SuSE rpms installed, too, because some other RPMs rely on them. Maybe someone can make use of it :-) cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * distribution: none vendor: none packager: Frank Steiner Summary: jdk %define java_base_version 1.6.0 %define sun_rel 03 %define sun_filerel 6u3 Name: common-java%{java_base_version}-%{sun_rel} Version: 1 %define sun_dirname %{java_base_version}_%{sun_rel} Release: 4 Source0: jdk-%{sun_filerel}-linux-i586.bin Source10: jdk-%{sun_filerel}-linux-amd64.bin License: Sun Group: System BuildArchitectures: i586 x86_64 BuildRoot: /root/tmp/%{name} AutoReqProv: yes PreReq: coreutils Conflicts: java-1_5_0-sun-plugin Obsoletes: java-1_5_0-sun-plugin %define linkname /jdk%{sun_dirname} %description Base on the .bin-file by Sun. For amd64, we install both 32bit and 64bit, and link /usr/lib/java und /usr/lib64/java. Browser-plugin and Webstart exist only in 32bit. Take care: java-1_5_0-sun-plugin.rpm provides the 32bit plugin on x86_64 hosts and sets a link in /usr/lib/browser-plugins/, too, and removes it on deinstallation. Therefore we add it in "Conflicts", "Obsoletes" and "Provides" to avoid the java-1_5_0-sun-plugin being installed together with our rpm. %prep %setup -c -T %build mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib{,64} %pre %install olddir=`pwd` cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib export MORE=10000 # 32bit version is installed also on 64bit systems sh %{SOURCE0} <<EOF >/dev/null yes EOF %ifarch x86_64 cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib64 sh %{SOURCE10} <<EOF >/dev/null yes EOF %endif cd $olddir # needed for some classpath build tools mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/java-%{java_base_version} mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/java-%{java_base_version} mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib64/java-%{java_base_version} # check if linkname is correct. Needed in post/postun if ! test -d "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/%{linkname}" then echo "ERROR: linkname is wrong" exit 1 fi %filelist %post # set the links # which is the name to link? rm -f /usr/lib{,64}/java /usr/lib{,64}/jre ln -s /usr/lib/%linkname /usr/lib/java ln -s /usr/lib/%linkname/jre /usr/lib/jre if [ "`/bin/arch`" = "x86_64" ] then ln -s /usr/lib64/%linkname /usr/lib64/java ln -s /usr/lib64/%linkname/jre /usr/lib64/jre fi # plugins are currently always 32bit cd /usr/lib/browser-plugins rm -f libjavaplugin_oji.so ln -s /usr/lib/%linkname/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so %postun # If packet is removed (so not upgraded): # remove links if they point to us. # If another java rpm overwrote them, leave # them untouched. if [ $1 = 0 ]; then if [ "`readlink /usr/lib/java`" = "/usr/lib/%linkname" ] then cat << EOF WARNING! The links /usr/lib(64)/java and /usr/lib(64)/jre are removed! EOF rm -f /usr/lib{,64}/java /usr/lib{,64}/jre rm -f /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so exit 1 fi fi %clean %clean_build %files -f files.list %dir /usr/share/java-%{java_base_version} %dir /usr/lib/java-%{java_base_version} %dir /usr/lib64/java-%{java_base_version}