Java (again)

Viro ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Fri Nov 19 17:15:08 UTC 2004


Sebastian Müsch Wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Tommy Trussell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:38:28 +0100, Markus Hubig <ubuntu at pot.ath.cx>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Baza wrote:
> >> 
> >>> OK, I've looked on the wiki and followed instructions, but I still
> don't
> >>> have java support in Mozilla or Firefox.
> >> 
> >> I used this discription, and it works like a charm ...
> >> 
> >> | http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian
> >> 
> > 
> > Does anyone know of an equivalent HOWTO for ppc? I gather you cannot
> > use SUN Java on this platform. I've tried the jini package and some
> > other things but so far I haven't made all the relevant
> connections...
> 
> If you only need java as standalone, sure. IBM provides everything
> needed
> (I-Series JRE woould run fine on a G4). If you need Java within Mozilla
> or
> other browsers, there is imho no way, as IBM's JRE is missing the
> needed
> binary-libraries which are needed by mozilla and friends :-(
> 
> cu
> Sebastian
> 
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You can use Konqueror if you need Java applets on PPC. Just check out
this wiki page.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/JavaPPC/view?searchterm=Java


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