I’m not sure if this is the right group to post in, seems like the closest.
I am on SLES 11 SP2, and have Firefox 10 for the browser. I can go to a certain Web site (www.acm.org), and get all the way to the ‘Launch Course’, and it not run the course material. And yes I have all the plug-ins, etc in place. Konqueror does the same thing. Chrome I have tried, it does nothing, wont call up and run after install, and that install is designed for OpenSuSE.
So this leads me to believe the Web site is namely designed for IE, though you can do a check, and Firefox is ok, just not this version, as is the case for other non IE on Linux browsers.
So how can I run IE? I see with Googles that there is a way, but they are related to installing on the OpenSuSe OS. I’ve even considered Safari, but that also requires a lot of gyrations, and is designed for an OpenSuSE install so I prefer not to go thruogh the hassle only to more than likely lead to disappointment.
Also, just poking around I found this page designed to help people with
issues getting into some kind of courses on their site (maybe different
format than the ones the OP described):
It specifically talks about Chrome users. The HTML for the first page
also has some hacks in there to make the page render properly for users
stuck on IE (which would imply the site works well with
standards-compliant browsers such as FF, Chrome, etc.).
I’d try to contact the site admins, or provide steps we can follow (I
don’t have a login to their site, in case that’s required). If that
doesn’t work, Chrome (or Chromium for the open source project behind
Chrome) should probably work at least, and that usually means FF will too.
Good luck.
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So this system has 10.0.7, so should be supported… I’m guessing they need to sort out their test…
On 10/01/2012 11:54 AM, jpquinn wrote:[color=blue]
I’m not sure if this is the right group to post in, seems like the
closest.
I am on SLES 11 SP2, and have Firefox 10 for the browser. I can go to a
certain Web site (www.acm.org), and get all the way to the ‘Launch
Course’, and it not run the course material. And yes I have all the
plug-ins, etc in place. Konqueror does the same thing. Chrome I have
tried, it does nothing, wont call up and run after install, and that
install is designed for OpenSuSE.
So this leads me to believe the Web site is namely designed for IE,
though you can do a check, and Firefox is ok, just not this version, as
is the case for other non IE on Linux browsers.
So how can I run IE? I see with Googles that there is a way, but they
are related to installing on the OpenSuSe OS. I’ve even considered
Safari, but that also requires a lot of gyrations, and is designed for
an OpenSuSE install so I prefer not to go thruogh the hassle only to
more than likely lead to disappointment.
So how can IE work on SuSE SLES 11 Sp2?[/color]
I believe many of the course CAN be made to work. I tested using openSUSE 11.4
and that worked fine for me (I’m a long time acm member) for many courses. Did
my browser, etc. pass “validation”… no… but everything seemed to work anyway.
Will take me a bit longer to test this under SLES 11 SP2… but I’ll try to post
back what I find. You likely have to have flash installed, and looks like you
have to have a java plugin (and if you know my prior posts over the years,
everybody depends upon the Sun version, and often times the openjdk one will
simply not work).
Yes I went through this too, yet it will report that the Version 10 is not an approved version of FF. Contradicts what their spec chart mentions.
Also, Chrome for SuSE is for OpenSuSe, as I tried it twice, but after install, it doesnÂt run.
As for detail in the form of a screen shot, it would be nothing but a launch splash saying “Loading…” of which it never does.
I was hoping that someone here would say that I could use IEs4Linux, and go through that mess. But it uses at last check on various links, as late of IE 6. I have no problem with a lower version, I want to know if someone has done this on SLES 11 SP2 64Bit and lived to tell about it.
Also, I would think that some other process, like WINE or VM, would work (Idea with IE running in WINE or VM (which ever is better)) , I have never used either before. I’m not afraid to move ahead for that challenge, it would be great to hear from someone or someone who knows someone who has done this successfully. And successfully would be to have IE run in/on (VM?) Linux, and be along to launch online courses that only IE can.
I have installed SLES 11, and now Oracle 11G, along with SQL Developer. My goal here is to use a Browser to do online Oracle training for certs, all on the same machine. So far, everything has been quite a steep technical challenge, there should be a cert for just getting all setup like this!
Ok, long story short, and we all love short stories, right?
My browser did not have the Java plugin. I dug up elsewhere off the Internet to do this, did so, and it now works.
Exit FF browser
cd /usr/lib64/firefox
mkdir plugins
chmod 755 plugins
ln -s /jdk/jdk-7u7-linux-x64/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_07/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
Fired up FF browser
At the URL address bar: about:plugins (Displays all enabled plugins, and java is now all over the place)
Did one more back-check, went to tools, addons, plugins, it shows up now, and is already enabled
Went to ACM.org and tested out by launching a course, works like a champ.
