Convenient Place for openSUSE Community Gathering in Indonesia

In November 2011, I bought about 400 square meters of land area. This land is intended as a comfortable place to work and also to conduct a community gathering. The place is around my birthplace in Tambun, Bekasi, a small town near Jakarta, Indonesia.

I plan to move my start-up company operations there, with natural office among the tropical gardens. Its construction took about 8 months, starting from land leveling, creation of building libraries for children, making a fish pond and planting tropical fruit trees.

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Installing Java Plugins on Mozilla Firefox-LinuxMint 64 Bit

I usually need a Java plugins for remote access to my co-location server based on Proxmox VE. I’m Currently using LinuxMint 13 “Maya” and here is the process to enable Java plugins in Firefox:

  1. Download Java plugins for Linux 64 bit (version .tar.gz) : http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en
  2. Close Firefox browser and run the following command. Don’t forget to run it with normal user permission, not with root permission user. Do not forget to adjust the name of the Java binary installer in accordance with the the file you’ve downloaded on earlier task.
    sudo mkdir -p -v /opt/java/64
    tar -zxvf jre-7u7-linux-x64.tar.gz
    mv jre1.7.0_07/ /opt/java/64/
    sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/64/jre1.7.0_07/bin/java" 1
    sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/64/jre1.7.0_07/bin/java
    sudo apt-get remove icedtea-6-plugin && sudo apt-get remove icedtea-7-plugin
    mkdir -v ~/.mozilla/plugins
    rm -v ~/.mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so
    ln -s /opt/java/64/jre1.7.0_07/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/
    

When finished, restart Firefox and then test the link below to make sure that Java is installed properly : http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp

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