Re: [SLUG] 64bit Java

From: James Haydon (jhaydon@stewartsigns.com)
Date: Mon Oct 10 2005 - 09:42:47 EDT


On Sunday 09 October 2005 15:15, Craig Zeigler wrote:
> 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
>
> I'm sure this will spawn the anti-Gentoo crusades again, but gentoo
> *does* have 64-bit packages for most everything, and that which they
> don't have, they have made workarounds for it... firefox works under
> 64-bit even if the java plugins aren't.
 
Sun has a 64-bit version of java for linux, even the jdk-1.5.xxx. Yes, with
the plugin. As for flash, that's another story.

-- 
James S. Haydon
Systems Analyst
The J.M. Stewart Corporation
stewartsigns.com
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