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

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Published on 2012-03-11T01:49:19Z Indexed on 2012/06/26 9:23 UTC
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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?

Thanks

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