[03:16] <jmchaffie> I's here :)
[03:17] <jrib> hi
[03:17] <jrib> what do you mean by "tried several sym links"?
[03:17] <jmchaffie> hello, thanks for helping me out...
[03:17] <jmchaffie> well several sites gave varied symbolic links to try.. I've tried them all, no luck
[03:17] <jrib> I see
[03:18] <jmchaffie> I've tried java 5 and 6, with the plugin packages.. and still no luck
[03:18] <jrib> well, do this: sudo aptitude purge sun-java5-plugin && sudo aptitude install sun-java5-plugin
[03:18] <jmchaffie> keeps reporting I have java 1.4.2
[03:18] <jmchaffie> ok just a sec
[03:18] <jrib> or do you want 6?
[03:19] <jrib> k, just let me know if you chose 5 or 6 after
[03:19] <jmchaffie> makes no difference to me.. 5 is fine, most websites and web apps work with 5
[03:19] <jrib> k, doesn't really matter
[03:20] <jrib> I just need to know which :)
[03:20] <jmchaffie> it just finished reinstalling the plugin
[03:20] <jmchaffie> should I try firefox now?
[03:20] <jrib> ok
[03:20] <jrib> now, close firefox
[03:21] <jmchaffie> ok
[03:21] <jrib> ok now in a terminal, what does this return: ps -ef  | grep firefox
[03:22] <jmchaffie> 1000     31633 31343  0 20:22 pts/0    00:00:00 grep firefox
[03:23] <jmchaffie> interesting
[03:23] <jrib> ok, now start firefox
[03:23] <jrib> working?
[03:23] <jmchaffie> ok...
[03:24] <jmchaffie> when I go test it a suns site... it still tells me I'm running 1.4.2
[03:24] <jmchaffie> I'm running 32-bit feisty if that helps any...
[03:24] <jrib> http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml here you mean?
[03:25] <jmchaffie> yes
[03:25] <jrib> argh, I don't have java installed on this machine, so I'll need you to read some stuff to me, what does this return:  update-java-alternatives --help
[03:25] <jmchaffie> update-java-alternatives [--jre]  [--plugin]  [ -t|--test|-v|--verbose] 
[03:25] <jmchaffie>            -l|--list [<jname>] 
[03:25] <jmchaffie>            -s|--set <jname>
[03:25] <jmchaffie>            -a|--auto
[03:25] <jmchaffie>            -h|-?|--help
[03:26] <jrib> does it says "list" somewhere?
[03:26] <jrib> k, now do: update-java-alternatives --list
[03:26] <jmchaffie> java-1.5.0-sun 53 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
[03:26] <jmchaffie> java-6-sun 63 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
[03:26] <jmchaffie> java-gcj 1041 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj
[03:27] <jmchaffie> is there a way to purge the other ones perhaps?
[03:27] <jrib> k, now do: sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun     (we'll choose 6)
[03:28] <jmchaffie> ok
[03:28] <jmchaffie> done
[03:28] <jrib> alright, now show me:  ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
[03:28] <jrib> if it's really long, use http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org and give me a link
[03:29] <jmchaffie> ok .. hold on.. not really long, but using pastebin...
[03:30] <jmchaffie> ok
[03:30] <jmchaffie> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/33200/
[03:31] <jrib> run this command: dpkg -S /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[03:32] <jmchaffie> it says not found
[03:33] <jrib> ok, now run this: sudo rm /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so
[03:33] <jmchaffie> ok it took that
[03:33] <jrib> now close firefox and start it again
[03:35] <jmchaffie> HEY! :) Java version 1.6.0!! Thanks a mint! of course sun wants me to get update 2 but who gives a rip! lol.. Man I really appreciate it. Nothing was working!
[03:35] <jmchaffie> so by removing that plugin, it forced it to use the other one we installed?
[03:36] <jrib> yeah
[03:36] <jrib> firefox uses the first one it finds
[03:37] <jmchaffie> That makes sense now. Well like I said, thanks a mint. I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out.
[03:38] <jrib> np
[03:38] <jmchaffie> I'm gonna go take an online test that needs java... lol take care.
[03:38] <jrib> gl
[08:59] <HarKoT> hello world
[03:22] <Bosambo> Jrib?
[03:22] <jrib> hi Bosambo
[03:22] <jrib> debian packages from debian.org on ubuntu tend to break your system
[03:22] <Bosambo> Ah
[03:22] <jrib> did you add the debian repository to your sources.list or install manually?
[03:22] <Bosambo> Manually...
[03:23] <jrib> how many?
[03:23] <Bosambo> 3
[03:23] <Bosambo> libc6
[03:23] <jrib> ah ok, that's not bad then, just revert back to the ubuntu version
[03:23] <Bosambo> Oh...sweet
[03:23] <jrib> lets do libc6 first then
[03:24] <jrib> what does this return atm: apt-cache policy libc6
[03:24] <Bosambo> Installed: 2.6.1-1
[03:24] <Bosambo>   Candidate: 2.6.1-1
[03:24] <Bosambo>   Version table:
[03:24] <Bosambo>  *** 2.6.1-1 0
[03:24] <Bosambo>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
[03:24] <Bosambo>      2.5-0ubuntu14 0
[03:24] <Bosambo>         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
[03:24] <Bosambo>         500 http://mirrors.kernel.org feisty/main Packages
[03:24] <Bosambo> Oops...
[03:25] <jrib> k, to have apt-get install the ubuntu package, just do:  sudo apt-get install libc6=2.5-0ubuntu14
[03:27] <Bosambo> Erm...ok it's telling me it will REMOVE a giant list of packages including everything to do with gstreamer, OpenOffice, gnome-terminal, firefox....to name a few
[03:28] <jrib> erm
[03:28] <jrib> what were the other two packages you installed?
[03:29] <Bosambo> I decided to change that to: sudo aptitude install libc6=2.5-0ubuntu14...and its just showing the two packages to DOWNGRADE
[03:29] <Bosambo> Not trying to uninstall everything else
[03:30] <Bosambo> It wants to downgrade libglib2.0-0 as well
[03:31] <Bosambo> the last package I installed was gtk+-2.10.13-dev
[03:31] <Bosambo> or something like that
[03:32] <jrib> as long as it's downgrading to ubuntu versions that seems fine, you can pastebin the output if you want
[03:35] <Bosambo> No output...it seemed to just go fine...cheers...that seems to have done it!
[03:35] <jrib> k, yeah stick to ubuntu packages
[03:35] <jrib> apt-get build-dep gimp   should give you the dependencies you need
[03:35] <Bosambo> Will do
[03:35] <Bosambo> Thanks a lot man