jobezone
May 28th, 2005, 09:25 PM
BUG in backports? Azureus + sun-j2re1.5
This strange thing happened to me in Hoary, which happened when I first installed azureus and after that sun-j2re1.5 .
When installing azureus from backports, it installed the sun-j2sdk1.5 package, but this package created a broken link.
It linked /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so which doesn't exist to /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so (which itself then links to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so) .
I only noticed this after installing the sun-j2re1.5 package also from backports. Java worked fine, but I didn't have the java plugin in firefox. It did not replace the faulty link that sun-j2sdk1.5 created with its plugin.
To make it work, I had to manually remove /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so and do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
I don't know if this would happen if I had installed sun-j2re1.5 first, and then sun-j2sdk1.5 , and I'm going to repost this message in the backports forum.
P.S.-the new version of http://www.ubuntuguide.org has now almost completely replaced marillat, using the backports.
This strange thing happened to me in Hoary, which happened when I first installed azureus and after that sun-j2re1.5 .
When installing azureus from backports, it installed the sun-j2sdk1.5 package, but this package created a broken link.
It linked /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so which doesn't exist to /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so (which itself then links to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so) .
I only noticed this after installing the sun-j2re1.5 package also from backports. Java worked fine, but I didn't have the java plugin in firefox. It did not replace the faulty link that sun-j2sdk1.5 created with its plugin.
To make it work, I had to manually remove /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so and do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/j2re1.5-sun/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
I don't know if this would happen if I had installed sun-j2re1.5 first, and then sun-j2sdk1.5 , and I'm going to repost this message in the backports forum.
P.S.-the new version of http://www.ubuntuguide.org has now almost completely replaced marillat, using the backports.