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Installing Java x64 in Ubuntu

22-Feb-09

Download jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin (hosted locally)
mkdir /usr/lib/jvm (might already exist)
sudo mv jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin /usr/lib/jvm/
cd /usr/lib/jvm/
sudo chmod a+x jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo ./jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo rm -r /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/firefox-addons/plugins/
killall firefox

Restart firefox,  it’s good to go.  Tested it with Wordle and GoToMyPC and didn’t have any issues at all – every other Java install method I’ve used hasn’t worked.
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Installing Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 8.10 x64

27-Jan-09

Gotta love reinstalling… a friend just sent me a Youtube link and I completely forgot that I didn’t have flash.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
killall firefox

Started Firefox back up again and was able to click the link he sent me – viewed just fine. Love how easy it is in this version of Ubuntu.

Installing xchat with mircryption in Ubuntu x64 & i386

26-Jan-09

x64 instructions:

sudo apt-get install xchat
wget http://mircryption.sourceforge.net/Downloads/mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
wget http://voobar.follvalsch.de/files/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2
unzip mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
tar -xvf mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2 -C /src
cd /src/mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha
mv Makefile ../ && mv dh1080 ../ && mv mircryption.cpp ../
cd ..

Ran into this error on install and realized I hadn’t installed a compiler since reinstallation. There actually is no readme.txt and no .so file was created.
Trying to install mircryption.so into ~/.xchat2 [...]

Updating to Openoffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 x64

25-Jan-09

sudo wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
tar -xvzf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz
cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
cd ../..
rm -R OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358

Hrm… this didn’t update my menus, I’ll have to revisit this later once I actually need a word processor and figure it out.

Google Gears in Firefox x64 for Wordpress 2.7

19-Jan-09

To resolve this error:
“Google Gears” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem
Stan Joel posted the lastest (5.18.0) on Issue 335

Download: http://jms.id.au/~shenki/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
In Firefox,  click File -> Open File, find gears-linux-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
Click “Install Now” when prompted
Restart Firefox

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