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Re: Java/IcedTea not working in Chromium

 

Is it possible to use adobe flash player or other open flash player if I
have Lubuntu and Chromium?

Paolo

2010/6/6 Richard Austin <richaustin1961@xxxxxxx>

>  Carsten
>
> I can understand not installing Firefox but Chromium maybe isn't the answer
> until it's completed? I could argue that using Google software is like using
> Windows - a sell out to the corporates - but i do not want a flame war thank
> you!
>
> I'd suggest giving Midori a try - it's very quick and light on resources.
> It runs fine on my Samsung 6000 with 256 ram and Lubuntu. Link for it is:
> http://www.twotoasts.de
>
> Rich
>
>
> On 06/06/10 12:11, Andrew Woodhead wrote:
>
> try:
>
>  cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins; sudo ln -s
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so
>
>  Should be ok.
>
>  Personally I use the .bin file from www.java.com as all the systems I'd
> need java on are 64bit. I then symlink the libnpjp2.so to the plugins folder
> and it works.
>
>  Java and flash n Ubuntu all run at 32bit via a 64bit wrapper which I
> think is horribly convoluted and ungraceful despite there being 64bit native
> plugins available.
>
>  HTH
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Carsten Agger <agger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm using Lubuntu 10.04 on my netbook, an Acer Aspire 110 with 512 megs of
>> RAM, and it's generally a pleasure.
>>
>> I have one problem, though - the Java plugin seems not to be working in
>> Chromium. I want to play Runescape, the MMORPG at www.runescape.com.
>>
>> What I'm getting is basically a blank (rather, black, the HTML background)
>> page where the Java applet should be.
>>
>> I installed Java and the plugin by installing the
>> "ubuntu-restricted-extras" package which pulled the openjdk and icedtea
>> versions of Java and plugin. This works FINE in Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 on
>> my other computer.
>>
>> Anybody knows what's wrong or how to put it right? :-) Is there a problem
>> with Java and Chromium? Maybe not, though - epiphany seems to give the
>> same result (I won't install Firefox).
>>
>> br
>> Carsten
>>
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