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Native 64bit Java Plugin in Ubuntu

As far as I can tell the latest release of Sun Java, in which they were nice enough to enable plugin support for 64bit at long last, has not been backported as a deb in any of the popular archives.

For those of you who can’t wait for it to land in Medibuntu, here’s the command to get it: (you’ll need fakeroot and alien installed)

wget http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/6u12/promoted/b03/binaries/jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008-rpm.bin
chmod +x jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008-rpm.bin
./jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008-rpm.bin
fakeroot alien jre-6u12-ea-linux-amd64.rpm
sudo dpkg -i jre_1.6.0_12-1_amd64.deb

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9 Responses to “Native 64bit Java Plugin in Ubuntu”

  1.   Christoph Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 10:23

    Although I originally heard of a 64-bit Java plugin for Firefox from Phoronix, this method seems more fit to the Ubuntu Help (since it uses DEBs). If you feel so inclined, you should update the Java Installation guide on Ubuntu Help to get the word out to other users. Or I could do it with your permission…

  2.   Craig Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 10:44

    Why not use OpenJDK, which has a 64 bit plugin and has been in Ubuntu for a while?

  3.   luke Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 10:59

    @Craig,

    I’ve always had trouble with OpenJDK, it seems to crash firefox on the some of the java apps I was testing.

  4.   Vadim P. Says:
    January 29th, 2009 at 18:15

    Ah, thanks for reminding me. I hope an already made .deb will be available soon – I too have issues with openjdk.

  5.   Robin Bowes Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 07:48

    This didn’t quite work for me on Intrepid 8.10, but I wrote up the additional steps required to make it work here: http://robinbowes.com/article.php/20090130132222337

    Thanks,

    R.

  6.   Alejandro Says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 14:14

    @Craig.

    OpenJDK has NEVER had a 64-bit plugin. You must be confused.

  7.   Nate Says:
    March 2nd, 2009 at 11:39

    What’s your exact java setup? After installing this plugin, FF noted it in about:plugins, but any java applet containing site (like processing.org) crashed FF for me.

  8.   dsapoki Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 07:40

    same here, FF crushes on java app pages, any advice?

  9.   teleskopy astronomiczne Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 08:59

    Very nice blog, your article is interesting, i have bookmarked it for future referrence

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