Java on Ubuntu amd64 a work-in-progress
I’ve spent a few hours throughout the past few days attempting to get a working Java browser plugin to work on Rahab, which is my primary desktop running Ubuntu Gutsy amd64. It’s well-known that only the icedtea package provides a plugin that is at least java5-compliant. However, there’s a significant bug in it. There’s another version of Java that provides a java-1.4.2 plugin, but I need the newer one in order to upload my pictures to Facebook.
I’ve tried lots of things. I tried installing icedtea from the repos. It doesn’t work at all. I tried recompiling it from the repo source—some applets will load, but the one I really need (Facebook) will not. I tried installing a newer build from a developer’s stash, and it works better than my build (as it’s based on newer code from icedtea), but it still doesn’t load the Facebook photo applet.
I tried downloading Sun’s java-7 beta JDK package, but there’s not a plugin in it, either.
So, for now, I’m SOL. It looks like I’ll be using another computer running Ubuntu i386 or the Windows partition on Rahab to upload my photos.
Dear Lazyweb: any suggestions on how I can get ~400 pictures onto Facebook without uploading unmodified originals five at a time?
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15 January 2008, 5:51 amDavid A. Harding:
You upload files using HTTP’s POST method. If you figure out the the POST URL for Facebook’s photos, you can use the free software curl program inside a shell loop to automate your photo upload. You may need to include a cookie, which curl can do: see curl(1).
-Dave
15 January 2008, 2:08 pmReena:
Can I get more information about icedtea.
16 January 2008, 2:41 amColin Dean:
Reena, this is my understanding of it.
Icedtea is an open source implementation of Java based on OpenJDK. OpenJDK is Sun’s release of Java under the GPL. Some of OpenJDK’s code still relies on code that has /not/ been GPL’d. So, Icedtea is implementing stubs in place of that code so that people can re-implement the those parts. OpenJDK and Icedtea are still very new projects, so there is a lot that people have not yet implemented.
For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IcedTea .
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7 March 2008, 6:47 pmGobater:
I’ve got it working in my Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy following this tutorial:
http://www.tolaris.com/2009/04/08/sun-java-firefox-plugin-working-on-ubuntu-hardy-amd64/
18 April 2009, 4:54 amkathy:
can not get rid of photogallery it will no go off my comp and let java load it keeps saying down load in progress retry
26 April 2009, 8:50 pmColin Dean:
Kathy, I’m willing to try to help you, but I need some more information.
26 April 2009, 8:52 pm