Skype on Fedora 16 64-bit

hc — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:21:50 +0000

For some odd reason, the guys over at Skype is refusing to release a pure 64-bit version of Skype for Fedora. Instead they ship an i586 version, without any dependencies defined for the 32-bit libraries is require. Here is what you need to install to make it work:

1	yum install -y libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686

Sun JRE on Firefox

hc — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:48:31 +0000

I rarely need a Java plugin for my 64-bit Firefox browser, but once in a rare while I need to use certain government services that require a digital signature and the original Sun Java plugin – OpenJDK just doesn’t cut it. Sun changed a couple of things recently, so many of the howto’s are outdated – this will work though:

Make sure you remove/disable OpenJDK:

$ rpm -e java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin

Get the latest Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) here. Make sure it’s the 64-bit non-RPM version. The RPM might work too, I just didn’t test it. We’ll assume it’s version 1.6.0-12. Execute the following commands to unpack it:

$ umask 022
$ chmod +x jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin
$ ./jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin

Accept the license agreement. The directory jre1.6.0_12 is created. Execute the following commands to move JRE and make a symbolic link to the plugin:

$ mv jre1.6.0_12 /opt
$ cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
$ ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so .

The new thing here is that they recently renamed the plugin from libjavaplugin_oji.so to libnpjp2.so – that set me off track for a while.

Restart Firefox and type in about:plugins and look for Java – if it’s there, you’re all set.

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