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violagirl23

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 184

icedtea6 on Arch64 failure?

I am having a heck of a time getting Java to work on Arch64 and in 64 bit Firefox. I have installed both jre and jdk, but Java is still not showing up in about:plugins at ALL and I haven't a clue why. So I thought I'd give icedtea a change. Reading that you coudln't use yaourt to install it, I tried to do it manually:

megini ~/Desktop/icedtea6  $  makepkg 
==> Making package: icedtea6 1.2-1  (Tue Jun  3 02:36:45 EDT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz...
--2008-06-03 02:36:45--  http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk6/promoted/b09/openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz
Resolving download.java.net... 72.5.124.114
Connecting to download.java.net|72.5.124.114|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 49685308 (47M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz'

100%[======================================>] 49,685,308   142K/s   in 5m 56s  

2008-06-03 02:42:43 (136 KB/s) - `openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz' saved [49685308/49685308]

  -> Downloading icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz...
--2008-06-03 02:42:43--  http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz
Resolving icedtea.classpath.org... 208.78.240.231
Connecting to icedtea.classpath.org|208.78.240.231|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4909928 (4.7M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz'

100%[======================================>] 4,909,928    148K/s   in 39s     

2008-06-03 02:43:23 (122 KB/s) - `icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz' saved [4909928/4909928]

  -> Found fix_corba_cmds_path.diff in build dir
  -> Found fix_jdk_cmds_path.diff in build dir
  -> Found fix_mozilla_headers_path.diff in build dir
  -> Found jdk.profile in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz ... Passed
    icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz ... Passed
    fix_corba_cmds_path.diff ... Passed
    fix_jdk_cmds_path.diff ... Passed
    fix_mozilla_headers_path.diff ... Passed
    jdk.profile ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> bsdtar -x -f openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz
  -> bsdtar -x -f icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
patching file Defs-utils.gmk
patching file Defs-utils.gmk
patching file Sanity.gmk
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1613 (offset 52 lines).

root /home/megini/Desktop/icedtea6 # pacman -U openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz 
loading package data...
error: missing package metadata in openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz
error: 'openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package
root /home/megini/Desktop/icedtea6 # pacman -U icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz 
loading package data...
error: missing package metadata in icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz
error: 'icedtea6-1.2.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package

What am I doing wrong here? I'm a bit lost. I just want my Java working in Firefox in *some* form or another and it doesn't seem like that's happening!

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bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: icedtea6 on Arch64 failure?

root /home/megini/Desktop/icedtea6 # pacman -U openjdk-6-src-b09-11_apr_2008.tar.gz

you're trying to install the archive, not the package

violagirl23

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 184

Re: icedtea6 on Arch64 failure?

>.<
Oh.
That... would explain a lot.
*slinks away* Thank you.

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Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: icedtea6 on Arch64 failure?

BTW icedtea6 is available in the repos of the french speaking Arch community.