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Installing Java x64 in Ubuntu

Kyle — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:02:03 +0000

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.

Installed & tested on: Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04, 9.10 Alpha 2

Installing Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 8.10 x64

Kyle — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:45:51 +0000

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

Kyle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:37:24 +0000

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 (see readme.txt for more info)
cp mircryption.so ~/.xchat2
cp: cannot stat `mircryption.so’: No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error

sudo apt-get install g++
make install
xchat

On first load mircryption will have you set a masterpass phrase. /setkey sets your key. Oh yes, and you’ll want to remove everything afterwards…

cd ..
rm -R src/ README.txt mircryption_xchatsrc.zip mcps_xchat_0.4.0-alpha.tar.bz2

i386 instructions:

sudo apt-get install xchat
wget http://mircryption.sourceforge.net/Downloads/mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
unzip mircryption_xchatsrc.zip
cd /src/xchat
make linux
make install
cd ../..
rm -R src/ README.txt mircryption_xchatsrc.zip

Updating to Openoffice 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 x64

Kyle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:39:38 +0000

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
Kyle — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:33:22 +0000
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

I keep up to date on the latest by checking Issue 335 on code.google.com. [Update #5]



Just as I installed (and was very impressed by) Wordpress 2.7,  I immediately ran into an issue trying to get Google Gears going in Firefox x64.  It says right under the install button that it isn’t supported,  but of course I didn’t even notice that the first time around and got 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
Did a quick search and found a TechRecipes post which has everything you need.  Already having burned myself once,  I checked to see what the latest Gears version was,  then read through the user group link from TechRecipes which has a really interesting discussion between an independent developer and some of the Gears devs about earlier x64 patches.
Now that Gears 5.7.0 was installed I went back into my Wordpress Site Admin and clicked the Tools menu – the button still showed “Install Now”.  Burned twice.  Clicking “Install Now” took me to the Gears install site again.  I checked my Firefox addons and saw that 5.7.0 was successfully installed.  Took a look at the source code to see if there was a direct link and found a variety of status messages (gears-msg1 through 4 in source) so for some reason the site did not realize that I had Gears installed at all.  Went back to the drawing board from earlier and found that everyone who has said that Gears works for them was using 4.9.0.  Removed 5.7.0,  restarted Firefox, installed 4.9.0 and was able to get ‘Turbo’ mode working,  all files downloaded successfully.
Man, I gotta say – the dashboard is definitely snappier.  It was worth it.
(Update) Ivanhoe has helpfully mentioned that his version was built for the latest gentoo in the comments and will have instructions on making your own for the next update.
(Update #2) Neils Peen has posted version 5.1.1 compiled on Kubuntu using Firefox 3.0.5 – I removed the 4.9.0 addon and updated with his and it worked fine.  While digging around I also found Issue 335 on Google Code which details this problem.
(Update #3) livibetter has posted version 5.1.3 compiled on Fedora 10 x64_63 with instructions to do so yourself – I removed the 5.1.1 addon and updated with 5.1.3 – tested by removing my Wordpress Gears download and going through the process again successfully.
(Update #4) Tux Wears Fedora has the latest x64 Gears version, tested with 8.10 & Firefox 3.0.6,  worked fine.