Help the Noob

[chickpea]

so are you running jre1.5? like frostwire told you it likes?

[ditchmagnet]

i got frost wire working now.

i noticed there was no /usr/java folder so i made it using

mkdir /usr/java

then i downloaded the .bin file from java.com and moved it to /usr/java using:

mv /home/<my username>/Desktop/jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin /usr/java/jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin

made it executable using:

chmod a+x jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin

installed it using:
./jre-6u3-linux-i586.bin

ran frostwire and started getting the same messages, but then it turned on and is working

java's guide:
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#enable

downloaded the non-"RPM":
http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=www.java.com

[momocore]

Are you running 32 bit or 64 bit?

You may need to emerge nspluginwrapper. I had similar problems with all things Flash related in Firefox until I re-emerged nspluginwrapper

see Fitzcarraldo's reply in this thread:
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=12658&p=72267&hilit=flash+64#p72267