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How to get New York Time's Crossword plugin to work?

Asked by erik owan

Has anyone been successful in getting Across Lite (the plug in provided by the NYTs to play their daily crossword puzzle) with Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.01??

According to this snipit from the readme file it uses a library that is typically included with the OS install:

I cannot locate any of the referenced libraries.

Please help. I feel like such a dummy.

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 The program is dynamically linked to the following libraries which
must exist in a path searched by the loader in order to run the program:

 libXt.so.6 (X11R6 tested with 6.0 libraries)
 libXext.so.6
 libX11.so.6
 libc.so.5 (tested with 5.2.18)
 libSM.so.6
 libICE.so.6

 libXpm.so.4 (tested with 4.7)
 libg++.so.27 (tested with 27.1.0 which is actually 2.7.1.0)
 libstdc++.so.27 "
 libm.so.5 (tested with 5.0.5)

in the statically linked to Motif version and additionally to

 libXm.so.2.0

in the dynamically linked version. Due to the way, the Motif library was created
by our vendor, the loader will not look in /usr/X11R6/lib for the Motif
library where it is usually installed. The library (or a symbolic link to it)
must be present in /usr/lib.

All the above libraries except for libXm.so.2.0 are part of standard Linux
installations. The executable is in ELF format and will only run on ELF
linux distributions with appropriate ELF shared libraries.

The paths to all directories in which the above libraries are placed must be
searchable by the loader either as a default or through a specification of
the path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. Please consult a
Linux FAQ or guide and/or your shell documentation for details.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

With Firefox and Ubuntu 7.10 i'm able to play http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/classicpuz.html
I think you only required Java...
Have you java installed... and enabled into Firefox setting...

By the way you can install Sun-Java.

Using Synaptic please first enable the multiverse repository:

Launch Synaptic from menu: System->Administration->Synaptic package manager
From Synaptic menu: Settings->Repositories-> Tab Ubuntu software
enable "Software restricted by copyright or legal issue (multiverse)"
Close Synaptic

Then open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Thank you

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erik owan (erik-owan) said : 		#2

Thanks for your feedback.

The New York Times changed the puzzles starting in 2002 or so.

Previously it was purely a java app (like the one demonstated by the link to the classic puzzle)

After 2002 you now need the acrosslite app and libraries installed. (to play, for instance, today's puzzle).

I have the sun-java6-jre installed and it works fine (for the classic puzzles), but the NYTs crossword still wants acrossl for the more recent ones.

Am I missing something?

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Best johnw (johnawerner) said : 		#3

You can use xword-1.0, it's available at http://x-word.org/

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erik owan (erik-owan) said : 		#4

Thanks johnw, that solved my question.