IBM Java on Ubuntu x86 machine

[Simon Burke]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:06:22 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are the steps I took to install IBM's Java plugin for Firefox on
> my x86 Ubuntu machine as a replacement of Sun's plugin:
> 
> *) go to http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/
>    and click on "Linux® 1.3.1 and 1.4.2"
> 
> *) click on "Download" (right-hand-side of screen)
> 
> *) after the signup screen (free registration)
>  select "IBM SDK for 32-bit xSeries (Intel compatible) Version  1.4.2 SR1"
> 
> *) Download:
>   tgz format   IBMJava2-JRE-142.tgz  (38.5MB)
> 
> *) at a command line prompt,  "tar -xvzf IBMJava2-JRE-142.tgz"
> 
> *) "mv IBMJava2-142 /opt"
> 
> *  to create plugin link for Firefox
>  ln -s /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_ojigcc3.so
> 
>  (don't forget to remove Sun's plugin libjavaplugin_oji.so  in that
> same firefox directory)
> 
> After a few tests, some fonts in some applets actually look better
> using IBM's version than Sun's version.
> 
Well it does appear to work a bit better, at least my PIX web based
interface seems to work faster and look a lot nicer, than using suns.
Thanks

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Thanks,
SimonB