[NTLUG:Discuss] I hate IcedTea

[David Simmons]

Hi Leroy - sorry to hear that...thanks for sharing a working solution!  - dave

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Leroy Tennison
<leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> <Rant> I understand the desire for open source alternatives to proprietary
> technology but they have to work...  A recent OpenSuse update stopped a
> working IcedTea configuration to my corporate network and I really need that
> connection right now. </Rant>
>
> For those using OpenSuse the solution may be to switch back to Java, for me
> it meant:
>
> Disabled IcedTea in firefox
> Downloaded the latest x64 jre from java.com (didn't use an rpm, did tar -xzf
> ...)
> Created /usr/java, moved the download there and expanded it, created symlink
> 'latest' to the jre... directory
> Found firefox.sh installed by OpenSuse and discerned from it that plugins
> are kept in /usr/lib64/browser-plugins
> In /usr/lib64/browser-plugins I renamed javaplugin.so to javaplugin.so-bad
> (no pun intended)
> Created a javaplugin symlink (hmmm, just realized I left off the so
> extension...) to /usr/java/latest/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so (per a web
> reference)
> Restarted firefox - an again-working solution!
>
> Hope this can help someone else.
>
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