Re: [SLUG] 64bit Java

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Sat Oct 08 2005 - 21:50:40 EDT


On Saturday 08 October 2005 07:41 am, Eric Jahn wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 00:53 -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > Hello Sluggers,
> >
> > This may be the dumbest question ever asked on the list. But here
> > goes.
> >
> > Running SuSE 9.2 64 bit. Recently upgraded Firefox (64 bit) Of
> > course now I have to reinstall all of the plugins. Soooo. question
> > is: Is there a 64 bit Java that I can install?
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't a 64 bit Flash plugin to work with your 64
> bit Firefox. I run 32 bit Firefox (in a chroot jail along with 32
> bit Java plugin) in my 64 bit system because of this. I would love
> to find a way around this, if anyone knows of a way. I set this up a
> year ago hoping that when 64 bit Windows came out, Flash would
> eventually catch up. -Eric Jahn

Eric,

You can install swfdec and swfdec-mozilla to get Flash on the 64 bit
Firefox. It is still an alpha but works pretty decently. If you use
SuSE and apt-get you can pick it up from the suser-jmorris repository.
If not, you can probably find it by googling and building it.

Bob S.
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