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yahoo euchre java problem

Asked by joelseeley

first, i finally got my wife to switch to kubuntu, and now i cant get stupid yahoo euchre to work on there for the life of me. now she wants windows, please help, i thank you in advance.

This is what I get

This game cannot be played using your current settings. Please, try the following:

    * Check to make sure that java is enabled in your browser. (learn more)
    * If you do not have java installed you may download it here.
    * To learn more about java support for browsers, visit our help pages.

on my PC it under system > preferences it says I have Java 6

i open synaptic and try to install 'sun-java6-plugin' and 'sun-java6-bin'
I have done that. It says that they are installed.

1. Open synaptic package manager.

2. Search for all the packages which have the word gcj in them and sort the packages by 'installed' so that the installed ones come at top

3. Completely remove all these packages. Make sure you are removing only packages which have the word gcj in them and their description says its for java.

4. Open firefox and start yahoo games - Now it should say you have a missing plugin and prompt you an installation. Install the missing plugin and MAKE SURE you chose sun java and NOT gcj.

i have gcj packages installed and i removed them, i still have the same problem.

java seems to work correctly for everything else, just not stupid yahoo euchre, or pogo games.

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joelseeley (joelseeley) said : 		#1

well after 3 days of fooling with this lol, i got it to work;
hopefully my wife will enjoy kubuntu now as much as i do
what i did:
at the command prompt typed
sudo aptitude
enter password
once in aptitude used the "/" key to search
searched for firefox, once found pressed the "-" key to select package for removal
then selected the icedtea package beneath it and pressed "-" for removal
then i pressed "g" to apply and "g" once again to continue
once the packages were removed i reinstalled the firefox browser in aptitude
it worked after that.

i should have done that in the first place, the reason this fixed the problem i am not totally sure of, if you happen to know why this may have solved the problem please post your answer.
Thanks!

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#2

Hi,

I had similar problems in the past.

The root cause - in my opinion - is pretty clear: if you have both Java plugins installed (icedtea and sun-java6-plugin), then Firefox will first and only try the first plugin icedtea. If you remove the icedtea java plugin, you force Firefox to use the only other installed plugin, which is sun-java6-plugin.

Only install sun-java6-plugin and remove all the other types of java plugin alternatives to avoid issues. I noticed that sun-java6-plugin is more compatible with lots of Java websites than the alternative plugins.

Regards,

Mark

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joelseeley (joelseeley) said : 		#3

sounds like that probably was the problem. for pogo.com and to get rid of the applet bail problem, i got rid of all other versions of java and installed only sun-java5 plugin and sun-java5 jre. now everything works great. Thanks!