Java and linux

I needed to get Java working in browser in linux. After installing Java, it never seemed to work in my browser in CentOS. After doing some searching I found this article that explains how to install the plugin manually. I hope this helps someone else!

Kim

Seti@home autoconf

So I was trying to compile the seti@home code today. I ran across an issue that was rather confusing at first.

[kim@Khai seti_boinc]$ autoconf
configure.ac:16: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:124: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
configure.ac:130: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
configure.ac:147: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
configure.ac:148: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
configure.ac:149: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:375: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
[kim@Khai seti_boinc]$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
./configure: line 1501: syntax error near unexpected token `dist-zip'
./configure: line 1501: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dist-zip)'
[kim@Khai seti_boinc]$ 

It turns out you need to run…

[kim@Khai seti_boinc]$ ./_autosetup 

…before running configure. Don’t actually run autoconf.

Kim

Linux Flash Player

On CentOS, I’ve been using the Adobe Flash Player 10. I’ve had issues with the flash player crashing all of the time. I would start doing something in flash, and the the screen would go grey. Watch a movie, screen goes grey. See an ad, screen goes grey.

It appears the issue had to do with nspluginwrapper. In CentOS, all I had to do was run “yum erase nspluginwrapper”, and my problems appear to be solved.

-Kim