Re: [opensuse] JAVA revisited, need clarifications (SOLVED)

On Sunday 30 of August 2009 12:46:18 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:

Verner Kjærsgaard skrev:

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Verner Kjærsgaard skrev:

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Patrick Shanahan skrev:

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* Verner Kjærsgaard [08-29-09 16:19]:

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Patrick Shanahan skrev:

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you would probably save yourself a lot of work and heartache if you would start using the opensuse repos and software.opensuse.org/search and get packages that were built to work *with* your system :^)

- but I and 1000s of other danish users unfortunately need to employ a few very specific version (update this or that) from SUN in order for them to be able to access their bank.

This is certainly not the fault of openSuSE, it's the fault of the stupid bank system, that demands and only works with a few (older) defined java versions.

That's why I/we have all this trouble.

The openjdk thing which is what you refer to (?) doesn't work with this odd *very secure* bank system....

well, I only have openSUSE provided rpm's except for vlc:

java-1_6_0-sun-plugin-1.6.0.u15-1.3 java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u15-1.3 java-1_6_0-openjdk-1.6.0.0_b16-3.3 java-1_6_0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.u15-1.3 java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0_b16-3.3

and I keep the sun version listed above active....

Thank you Patrick,

- this indeed is a clarification :-) - the one I could use would be the second in the list. - of course in YaST searching for jre doesn't give me anything SUN java at all. I guess because the correct repos are not listed.

What repos should I include?

- and oh...thanks a lot for your and all others time and effort to help!

I'm now downloading/intalling SUN java through YaST. For the oddest reason the repo non-oss WAS DESABLED!

The Sun Java is in NonFree repository (but updates are available in Update repo).

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How on earth did that happen...

Well it seems I'm back on track, the list of JAVA's shown when askings YaST look very fine.

Thanks to all, including Patrick who game me the final clue :-) This is what I did...

Fixed the non-oss repo so that it (again) was active in YaST repos. Selected SUN java version 1.6 from same repo in YaST. Installed it. Renamed /home/my-home/.mozilla to dot_mozilla, thus forcing FF re-create one on next start. Started FF, closed FF again. In the new .mozilla/firefox/ directory, I created a directory named plugins. Made sure I owned it, and set rights to 700. In the newly created plugins directory, I created a symlink to

/etc/alternatives/jre_sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Restarted FF, checked the bloo.. bank. It worked!

Removal of the old symlink would be enough, because our Sun Java packages uses update-alternative system to manage a symlink to /usr/lib(64)/browser-plugins/ Regards Michal Vyskocil