Hoosgot

http://cad.cx/blog/2008/01/15/java-on-ubuntu-amd64-a-work-in-progress/ asks Hoosgot,

I’ve spent a few hours throughout the past few days attempting to get a working Java browser plugin to work on Rahab, which is my primary desktop running Ubuntu Gutsy amd64. It’s well-known that only the icedtea package provides a plugin that is at least java5-compliant. However, there’s a significant bug in it. There’s another version of Java that provides a java-1.4.2 plugin, but I need the newer one in order to upload my pictures to Facebook. I’ve tried lots of things. I tried installing icedtea from the repos. It doesn’t work at all. I tried recompiling it from the repo source—some applets will load, but the one I really need (Facebook) will not. I tried installing a newer build …

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