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Running 32-bit Firefox with sun-jre in 64-bit Ubuntu

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I am trying to run juniper networks connect program to vpn into work and it only works on 32bit sun jre. All the things I have found with google failed so far. I can't use any scripts, like madscientists, as part of the authentication I need to provide some random characters from a grid.

So to isolate this 32bit app install to a corner, I downloaded firefox and jre and unpack them to /opt. I run firefox with sudo as Juniper asks for root password.

Here is Firefox plugins folder

/ot/firefox32/plugins# ls -la

total 8

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Mar 11 00:57 .

drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 10 23:48 ..

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   49 Mar 11 00:57 libnpjp2.so -> /opt/java/32/jdk1.6.0_31/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so

Firefox lists sun jre but when check it with "http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp" it either can't detect java or Firefox freezes

Any Ideas?

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answered 3 Years ago iedncommon · Accepted Answer

This issue affects people who use Juniper Network Connect where a username, password AND a secure token is required. The mad scientists scripts do not cater for that token despite claiming it does.

I have recently fixed this problem using Swiftfox 32bit version.

First before trying Swiftfox try: "sudo apt-get install ia32-libs". That might be your missing package.

If not then download Swiftfox from http://getswiftfox.com/download.htm. Click deb files and download the intel prescott file. Install it with: "sudo dpkg -i swiftfox_3.6.13-1_prescott.deb". I created a new java folder to place 32bit java in: "sudo mkdir /usr/java" and unzipped the latest Java 7 32bit file to there: "sudo tar -zxvf jre-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz -C /usr/java".

Now link the plugin to Swiftfox with: "sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_03/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/swiftfox/plugins/libnpjp2.so"

After all that Juniper Network Connect works flawlessly although I cannot run Swiftfox 32bit and Firefox 64bit at the same time.

Update: Also check out this answer: 130473

Very simple way to use 32bit Firefox and Java together without doing too much other custom configs