Obviously this really isn't one of *my* programs - but I made the package, and I'm just posting this here for everyone else's ease-of-use. In the current Ubuntu repositories, Sun's version of Java doesn't have a Firefox plugin for any of the AMD64 versions of Java. There are other Java plugins you can use but they may not work as well as Sun's (and I found this to be the case for me).

Well there is an AMD64 version out there, though - it's just not in the repositories yet. So I went and grabbed it, and turned it into a .deb package so I can remove it easily later. To install it, download and double-click. If you have another Java plugin installed, you may need to remove it in Synaptic in order to allow this one to take over - I believe the package to remove is "icedtea6-plugin". That's what it was for me, but I'm not totally sure that's the one installed by default. This is the package I created: jre_1.6.0_14-1_amd64.deb .

Contact me if you have trouble with this, let me know what goes wrong and maybe I can help out.

By the way, I used the first few steps in this article to help me create the package, so credit goes to "robin" for figuring out how it's done in the first place. Like the article says, after you install the package you need to run these commands in a console to get your PC to use it:
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_12/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.7/plugins/

Afterward you should be good to go! If it doesn't work after that, check your "about:plugins" in Firefox (just type that as the URL) and make sure you don't have two Java plugins that might be working against each other.

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I tried to get to the site today and found that it would not load - and looking back at my logs, it looks like it's been that way for a short while. Although I never really did figure out exactly why this happened, it seems to be OK now. All I did was change my router's settings to allow both TCP and UDP connections and that seems to have fixed it - but then I just changed it back, and it still works fine.

My first thought was that the server had crashed. But then I found that I could login to it fine with SSH, so I figured maybe it was just LightTPD - so I opened up links on the server to see if it could download the page at all, which it did.

This one's a mystery. The fact that changing the router's settings fixed it, and then changing them back kept it working, makes me think maybe it was just the router acting up - it's just a home Linksys router, and I've heard that home routers sometimes act up a bit after they've been in use a good long time, or if they encounter a relatively heavy load. I'll monitor things to make sure it doesn't crap out again.

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