Instaling Java and fash player on PPC????

[shgadwa]

I have java installed, however firefox does not think so or something..it says its not installed. I want to install some kiind of adobe flash substitute. everyone I found, there is missing too much to do t. Dnash i think it is, is missing a lot of things to do it so is one other one and what I am trying now is gplglash.....it wants libz...and I cannot find it in synaptic or online...what do i do???

[avtolle]

I have java installed, however firefox does not think so or something..it says its not installed. I want to install some kiind of adobe flash substitute. everyone I found, there is missing too much to do t. Dnash i think it is, is missing a lot of things to do it so is one other one and what I am trying now is gplglash.....it wants libz...and I cannot find it in synaptic or online...what do i do???
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=754620&page=3 see my post 22 on installing Java. If you have it downloaded and installed, then see the bit about the need for a symbolic link. On Flash, gnash seems to be the project with the most development. Unless there is a ppc version of Flash developed and released for Linux, there isn't going to be a straight substitute to "just plug in". I notice gnash works, albeit herky-jerky, on 8.04 with sound through the PulseAudio system.

[shgadwa]

This is what I need for gnash...and the package manager has hardly any of it....


Configured paths for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu are:
DocBook document processing disabled (default)
ERROR: No libxml2 development package installed!
To compile this project install
or .deb users: apt-get install libxml2-dev
or .rpm users: yum install libxml2-devel
ERROR: No KDE development package installed!
To disable the KDE gui,
reconfigure using --enable-gui=<list-of-guis>
and omit kde from the list.
When the option --enable-gui=... is omitted,
the default is the same of --enable-gui=kde,gtk
To be able to build the kde gui,
install the KDE development environment from http://kde.org
or .deb users: apt-get install kdelibs-dev
or .rpm users: yum install <something-else>.
JPEG flags are: default include path
JPEG libs are: -ljpeg
WARNING: No PNG library development package installed!
Gnash will be built without support for dynamic loading of PNG files.
Install it from http://www.libpng.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libpng12-dev
or .rpm users: yum install libpng-devel
ERROR: GST media handling requested but gstreamer-0.10+ not found
Install it from http://www.gstreamer.net
or .deb users: apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev
or .rpm users: yum install gstreamer-devel
POSIX Threads flags are: -pthread
POSIX Threads lib is: -lpthread
WARNING: CURL library not found.
Gnash will be built without support for streaming from URLs.
Why not install libcurl from http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl
or .deb users: apt-get install libcurl3-dev
or .rpm users: yum install curl-devel
AGG Pixel format is: all
ERROR: No AGG development package installed!
Install it from http://www.antigrain.com
or .deb users: apt-get install libagg-dev
or .rpm users: yum install agg-devel
ERROR: No BOOST development package installed!
Install it from http://www.boost.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev
or .rpm users: yum install boost-devel
WARNING: You need to have the Ming development and utilities packages
installed to run most of the tests in Gnash testsuite.
Install it from http://ming.sourceforge.net
or .deb users: apt-get install libming-dev
WARNING: You need to have the MTASC compiler packages installed
to run some of the tests in Gnash testsuite.
You can install it from http://mtasc.org
or .deb users: apt-get install mtasc
WARNING: You need to have the 'swfmill' tool installed
to run some of the tests in Gnash testsuite.
You can install it from http://swfmill.org/
WARNING: You need to have 'swfc' from SWFTools installed
to run some of the tests in Gnash testsuite.
You can install it from http://www.swftools.org/
PYTHON is /usr/bin/python
WARNING: You need to have the zlib development packages installed
to play compressed SWF (most of them from version 6 up)
and to display some kinds of JPEG files.
Install it from http://www.zlib.net
or .deb users: apt-get install zlib1g-dev
or .rpm users: yum install zlib-dev.
It may still be possible to configure without zlib.
WARNING: You need to have the freetype development packages installed
to use device fonts.
Install it from http://www.freetype.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
or .rpm users: yum install libfreetype6-dev (??)
It may still be possible to configure without freetype.
WARNING: You need to have the freetype development packages installed
to use device fonts.
Install it from http://www.fontconfig.org
or .deb users: apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
or .rpm users: yum install ??
It may still be possible to configure without fontconfig.

configure: error: Please install required packages
shawngadwa@atlantis:~/Desktop/gnash-0.8.2$

Its a mouthful...what now?

[avtolle]

What repositories do you have enabled? I've enabled all (under the third-party tab) except those related to source code. After I did this, I did a reload under Synaptic, and gnash; gnash-common; and the mozilla plugin were all there. Selected all for installation, installed. HTH.

[shgadwa]

ok....What is a repositories and where is the third party tab????

I tried to do waht you said with java and I get this...

shawngadwa@atlantis:~/.mozilla/plugins$ ln -s /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-ibm/jre/plugin/ppc/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
ln: creating symbolic link `./libjavaplugin_oji.so' to `/usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-ibm/jre/plugin/ppc/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so': File exists
shawngadwa@atlantis:~/.mozilla/plugins$


I did it while firefox was off and then I opened firefox and java still does not work. I also have fastjar installed too and a lot of other java extentions or whatever.

[avtolle]

I would point you to this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java#head-81c3789bc76872336f69a7af90d1759ef38eeb64

and suggest you look under the part which discusses installation of java under ppc. What I think is happening is that you have multiple instances of Java installed, and the system doesn't know which one you want to use. So, check the version that is installed,
java-version and configure to the version you want to use,
sudo upadte-alternatives --config java all as is contained in the Wiki article.

[shgadwa]

Thank you!

I typed in java-version in ther terminal and it said command not found. I do think that I have more than one java install isntalled...I also have fastjar and a lot of java extentions or whatever you want to call them..essentials.

Soooo, when looking at the long lsit of stuff that it has when i search for "java"...which one do i select?? Jsut the java one or do I need others??

I will read that link.

[avtolle]

My typo. Should be
java -version.
You should select which version of java you wish to run. I cannot recall exactly the selections that appeared when I used the command
sudo update-alternatives --config java, but I selected the IBM Java as it performs the best for me. Hope this helps you.