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Thor@Flanders

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[SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

Hi,

Ok, let me begin by screaming that i do like Arch Linux . I needed a little under five hours (I am a newbeeeeee) from inserting the net installer to a working system. Give or take some thingies, I am up and running. And so far, I am quite pleased.

Two problems, though.

I play Runescape, and use the open jdk that came with Arch. I have six seconds of sound, then six seconds of silence and so on. Isn't that weird? What can I do about that?

I also need/prefer the Sun JRE. I use the Firefox. I installed/unpacked the JRE in /usr/share and placed a link in /home/t01/.mozilla/plugins but Firefox does not get the message. Of course, this, because I don't know how to get the Epiphany browser to use the Sun JRE.

As a side note, I downloaded SweetHome 3D, written in Java. It comes with its own JRE and it uses the JRE it came with, so Sun's JRE can run on the system, just that Firefox doesn't is a bit clueless...

Please help. So that I can make the final hop to Arch.

I use Fedora now, but with a life cycle that is increasingly shorter than before (now at about six months) the keeping up keeps me back...so I need a rolling Linux with a better life span...hence Arch.

Thanks!

Thor

Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-08-27 21:11:16)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

you can simply

sudo pacman -S jre

to replace the openjdk with Sun jre

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Doehni

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

Welcome to Arch and the Forums!

You can in fact install Oracle/Sun Jdk or jre. It's in the community repo.

To activate the community repo, just uncomment it in /etc/pacman.conf

Last edited by Doehni (2010-08-27 18:13:15)

Thor@Flanders

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

Hi,

Thanks for the reply - glad to see I'm not alone in this ;-) .
I tried, but the system says Eclipse needs it and it stops that. I also tried to install alternatives but that failed too:

pacman -S alternatives

I'll see if I can uncomment the repo (if thats not already done because "pacman -S jre does not give an error) and retry...

Thanks already both of you :-)

Thor

Thor@Flanders

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

Nope, community is already open...

The "install" (running the bin, that is) did work, there is a folder with the plugin...but Firefox doen not use is...
Maybe (still the Fedora-way?) the open JDK has a higher priority?

Thor

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

openjdk and jdk cannot coexist on the same system. One will conflict with the other. so you can either use sun jdk for everything or openjdk. You can force install jre or you can uninstall eclipse --> install jre and then re-install eclipse.

* well you can have both on the same system, but then you will have to create a separate chroot etc...

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Cdh

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

jre is only the runtime. You want the development kit called jdk (it includes jre).

There's no point in having eclipse + jre...

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Thor@Flanders

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

...and it's only Runescape that does strange...it mutes for six seconds every six seconds...
Tried this applet http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~kvdoel/bells/bells.html and there the sound does not mute...

By the way, when I try to run Runescape on Epiphany, it crashes altogether...

Anyone want that reort???

Thor

Thor@Flanders

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I followed the tip to install the JDK (not just the JRE) and had to extend the PATH in /etc/profile, did a restart (just to have a fresh set) and found Eclipse happy, Firefox in good order and continuous sound in Runescape!!!

You lot are beyond great! Espresso all round!!!

I officially LOVE Arch Linux!!!

Migrating is next, o yea!!!

Wellness to all

Thor

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

please mark thread solved by editing first post and prefixing [SOLVED] to your subject line

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Thor@Flanders

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Re: [SOLVED] New Arch user in trouble

will do!!!