Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)
Paul Walsh wrote:
Bruno Buys wrote:
Paul Walsh wrote:
I did a amd64 etch install two days ago. There was an issue with
vmware, but different from yours. Mine installed ok, but when running
vmware-config.pl it complained about linux headers, which i did have
ok. Look at a thread called 'vmware on newer kernels (was debian
rocks!)', or something like this. Nice ppl from this list pointed me
to a patch which solved, so now vmware does ok. And its the vmware
server version.
Etch is very likely to start quicker than suse. I had this impression
when i first installed woody, compared to suse 8.2 that I was using.
Its a nice system, though a little bloated.
Thanks Bruno and Jorg. After I installed ia32-libs I got a bit
further and can now access my VMs :-) I've even pointed IceDove at my
Thunderbird directory and have access to all the mail there. Next
stop: IceWeasel and Java plugin. ..
So far I've downloaded JRE 1.5.0 (self-extracting .bin file) from Sun
and extracted it in /usr/java (so I end up with /usr/java/jre1.5.0)
I then created symlinks in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins and
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins which pointed to
/usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so but *still*
iceweasel can't find the plugin. Any suggestions folks?
From this path /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so,
I understand you downloaded the i386 version from sun?
I guess since sun moved java to gpl, there are apt-get packages for it. See:
bruno@merlin:~$ apt-cache search java|grep plugin
java-gcj-compat-plugin - Web browser plugin to execute Java (tm) applets
using gij
libmcardplugin - MuscleCard Applet PlugIn
mozilla-plugin-vlc - multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC
If I recall well, java-gcj-compat-plugin installed the java re needed by
my homebanking.
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