Category Archives: Applications

64-bit Java Plugin for Firefox from Sun

Just started testing this on x86_64 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid). The release I’m working with is jre-6u12_b03 (22 Dec 2008). The archive name is jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008.bin. The direct download link is here (for now!).
The new plugin file is now called libnpjp2.so. It is now located under $JRE_HOME/lib/amd64. On my system that would be /usr/java/jre1.6.0_12_amd64/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so. The actual archive [...]

VMware Server on Ubuntu

This won’t be a long post. Yes, there’s a trick (or two) to getting VMware Server to work on Ubuntu. Fortunately, things have become much less complicated with the versions cited in the title. There are still a few dependencies that need to be there on the Ubuntu side, and one custom symlink, but otherwise [...]