Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64

[Kilz]

I saw that the soft link was incorrect and fixed it myself, but I still only get the red X when I try to view Java applets. I have used this script for the last 3 versions of ubuntu and it works great, but with Hardy I cannot get it to work and the only thing I can think of that is different is that I installed Fedoras Iced Tea Java for amd64. Could this be causing problems with the 32bit version of Sun Java??

Close all browsers.
Open a terminal, type in firefox32
Go here, http://javaboutique.internet.com/aster/

Do you see the applet?

[Kilz]

It's working now. The only thing that I did was to reinstall Flash from Kilz's sticky.

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree lib32nss-mdns

Note: I couldn't access a site that I had used before with Flash, so I reinstalled it.

Whats strange is that firefox32 shares 0 files with 64bit Firefox, not even a plugin or plugin directory. That command installs flash where the 64bit version looks for it, not the 32bit version.

[Kilz]

I saw that the soft link was incorrect and fixed it myself, but I still only get the red X when I try to view Java applets. I have used this script for the last 3 versions of ubuntu and it works great, but with Hardy I cannot get it to work and the only thing I can think of that is different is that I installed Fedoras Iced Tea Java for amd64. Could this be causing problems with the 32bit version of Sun Java??

I dont think so, is the symlink good for java in /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins, does the file its pointing to exist??

[Phil Urich]

This all worked fine until recently (I think it was the Hardy install, but I went up to Gutsy on my 64-bit computer only recently beforehand and I might not be remembering correctly). I've tried running the install script again, updating it all, but no luck.

Basically what happens is, Firefox (or Flock, or whatever) cannot translate domain names . . . go to http://64.233.161.104 it works fine, but http://google.ca and it's "server not found".

I checked back in this thread and around December 13th 2006 someone mentioned this issue, but no solution seems to have been ever proffered

Edit: I checked closer and there was talk of IPv6 causing problems, but I deleted all the IPv6 stuff in Static Hosts and nothing has gotten better . . . is there something else I need to do? Or is this a different problem?

Edit the second: Manually checking the entire thread instead of searching, and I did find my answer, but I figure I should re-post this here in case someone else has the same issues:

To get around IPv6 issues in Feisty, rather than disabling IPv6 by blacklisting the module, you can actually use the firefox "network.dns.disableIPv6" option (accessible through about:config). It is set to false by default. Set it to true and everything starts working.

Thanks gianp! You saved the day for me.

(Man, sometimes I hate the Firefox devs. Make it possible to get to those options without forcing people to remember an arcane quasi-address, sheesh. I guess I'm just not used to the GNOME way of doing things Sorry, sorry, that was flamebait, I'm just rather annoyed that something so simple was so hidden with such little real reasoning).

[finite9]

Close all browsers.
Open a terminal, type in firefox32
Go here, http://javaboutique.internet.com/aster/

Do you see the applet?

Did exactly as you said, but just red x for the shoot em up java game.

Here is my Java config:

andrew@everest:/usr/lib/jvm$ ls -l
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   24 2008-04-30 21:58 ia32-java-6-sun -> ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-04-30 21:58 ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-04-27 13:56 java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-04-29 12:24 java-6-openjdk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2008-04-30 21:57 java-6-sun -> java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-04-30 21:57 java-6-sun-1.6.0.06
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   26 2008-04-27 13:56 java-gcj -> java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0

andrew@everest:/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7$ ls -l
total 140
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137085 2008-03-25 10:03 libjavaplugin_oji.so

andrew@everest:/usr/local/firefox32/plugins$ ls -l
total 20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew users 19160 2008-04-05 00:02 libnullplugin.so

andrew@everest:/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins$ ls -l
total 120
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root     78 2008-05-04 21:34 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew users 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so

When i browse to Aboutlugins in firefox32, I do see the Java 1.06 plugin listed. It's a page long list of enabled Java plugins, but still no working Java.

[Dencrypt]

I can confirm the same problem with Kubuntu Hardy x64 Swiftweasel. I tried the installscript and everything worked fine but java is not working. I also tried

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and chosed /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java (3) but it still says Loading Java Applet Failed...

Selection Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
1 /usr/bin/gij-4.2
+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
* 3 /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Has the + something to do with it maybe? I have as the previous poster installed icedtea7 prior in 64bit firefox3b5.

[Kilz]

Did exactly as you said, but just red x for the shoot em up java game.

andrew@everest:/usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins$ ls -l
total 120
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   root     78 2008-05-04 21:34 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 andrew users 92448 2006-09-19 15:39 libnpp.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andrew users 19496 2006-09-10 04:41 libnullplugin.so

When i browse to Aboutlugins in firefox32, I do see the Java 1.06 plugin listed. It's a page long list of enabled Java plugins, but still no working Java.

Can you please try and change the ownership of this plugin to you from root.

[NullHead]

I believe this would work (?)

sudo chown /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/libnpp.so
sudo chown /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/libnullplugin.so

[Kilz]

I believe this would work (?)

sudo chown /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/libnpp.so
sudo chown /usr/lib32/firefox32/plugins/libnullplugin.so

I was referring to the java plugin symlink that was bold. but the chown command would be
sudo chown YourUserame:users /path/to/the/file

[Kilz]

I can confirm the same problem with Kubuntu Hardy x64 Swiftweasel. I tried the installscript and everything worked fine but java is not working. I also tried

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and chosed /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java (3) but it still says Loading Java Applet Failed...



Has the + something to do with it maybe? I have as the previous poster installed icedtea7 prior in 64bit firefox3b5.

Open a terminal, type firefox32, look at a page with java on it, do you see any errors in the terminal?