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ubuntu-restricted-extras package

64bit restricted extras should use 64bit flash and java plugins

Bug #351389 reported by Mike Homer
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ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Onkar Shinde
Nominated for Jaunty by Mike Homer

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-restricted-extras

The current release of ubuntu-restricted-extras for Ubuntu/Jaunty/amd64 should link the recently released versions of sun-java6-plugin for amd64 instead of the Iced-Tea6-plugin.

Also ubuntu-resticted-extras should be linking to the recently released version of 64bit version of flash instead of the 32bit version with ndiswrapper.

Until recently using a 64bit version of Linux was a pain with Java and flash, please lets get this in the release.

link to java with 64bit plugin http://download.java.net/jdk6/index.html
link to flash 64bit plugin http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

I have been running both of these plugins and have been very impressed, especially with the flash one.

Thank you

Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny)
Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jesper de Jong (jespdj) wrote :

Note that currently, the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux is a prerelease / alpha version, even though many people report that it works very well.

(@Mike: You mean nspluginwrapper, not ndiswrapper).

The problem with ubuntu-restricted-extras is that at this moment it depends on sun-java6-jre as well as icedtea6-plugin for amd64, which means that you get two Java runtime environments installed (Sun Java 6 and OpenJDK Java 6) if you install ubuntu-restricted-extras on amd64. The dependency on icedtea6-plugin (and OpenJDK Java) should be removed, since the current version of Sun Java 6 now includes a 64-bit Java plug-in.

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Attached is a debdiff that prefers sun-java6-jre over icedtea6-plugin because some people might want the icedtea plugin.

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Jesper de Jong (jespdj) wrote :

Simon, are you sure that your patch is correct?

I think it should be sun-java6-plugin, not sun-java6-jre.

sun-java6-jre is just the Java runtime environment, without the browser plug-in.
sun-java6-plugin is the browser plugin, which depends on sun-java6-jre.

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Jesper,

thanks for the catch. You're right.
Here is a updated patch.

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Setting to confirmed, as outlined in the sponsorship procedure documentation

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote :

Can you please provide the patch against latest version in karmic?
Also note that this is a native package. So the version should not be of the form ubuntuX.

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No (11111nonononono-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Onkar,

attached is the debdiff you asked for.

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote :

I will sponsor this debdiff sometime today.

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-restricted-extras - 35

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ubuntu-restricted-extras (35) karmic; urgency=low

  * Prefer sun-java6-plugin over icedtea6-plugin (LP: #351389)

 -- Simon Olofsson <email address hidden> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:53:49 +0200

Changed in ubuntu-restricted-extras (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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