mozilla/firefox search engine AMD64 jre1.5 plugin linux
This is a 64-bit FC* issue. I believe we did a year or so ago run i686 firefox (from mozilla.org) and the Sun Java + plugin on AMD64 FC2. Note that help.search() will do all that the HTML search engine does, and more. On Windows, you would get help for a different version of R, but i686 Linux would be fine. The latter is our solution: we only use AMD64 machines as servers.
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, laurent buffat wrote:
Hi, I have a problem with the "help.start()" and the search engine on a AMD64 : The search engine use the java plugin but the java plugin is not available for the jre.1.5 ... I have a linux box : fedora 4 on 64bit and R2.1.1 When I start the search engine, I had the message that the java plugin was missing. So I try to install manual the java run time jre-1.5 for the AMD64, but the plugin was missing ( http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=568127&tstart=75 ) So I instaled the J2RE blackdown 1.4.2 I obtain the plugin for the 64bit and make the link. When I restart R and the search engine, the plugin 1.4.2 correctly reconnize by mozilla ( about:plugins in the URL windows), and I don't have any more the message for the missing plugin, but, then I try a search, mozilla freeze and I have to kill it : ####################
help.start()
Making links in per-session dir ... If '/usr/bin/firefox' is already running, it is *not* restarted, and you must switch to its window. Otherwise, be patient ... UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6:, extra: Firefox/1.0.6 [root at panoramix ~]# ps -eaf | grep mozilla root 13916 13899 0 09:40 pts/1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6 /run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox-bin -UILocale fr-FR file:///tmp/Rtmpo13829/.R/doc/html/index.html [root at panoramix ~]# kill 13916 [root at panoramix ~]# /usr/lib64/firefox-1.0.6/firefox: line 227: 13916 Compl?t? "$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh" $script_args "$dist_bin/$MOZILLA_BIN" "$@ ################# I am not a "system administrator" and It's my home computer (so no help ...) So I need your help ;-) - For the AMD64 R users : have you the same problem ? - If yes : How you solve it ? - If it's not possible to solve, is it possible to find an alternative solution (like to acces of the search engine from an other computer (windows, linux 32). I don't care about java plugin on the mozilla 64 bit, I just want the R help !!! Thanks. L. Buffat
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