With my new CAC card, I found that libcoolkey.so was not working with Firefox correctly.  The new, 144k CAC cards do not play well with the old version of libcoolkey.  I did find that the ‘experimental’ release of libcoolkey will fix this problem, here is the fix:

amd64 (64bit)

sudo su
apt-get purge coolkey libckyapplet1 libckyapplet1-dev
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/libckyapplet1_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/libckyapplet1-dev_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/coolkey_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb
dpkg -i libckyapplet1_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb libckyapplet1-dev_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb coolkey_1.1.0-7_amd64.deb

i386 (32bit)

sudo su
apt-get purge coolkey libckyapplet1 libckyapplet1-dev
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/libckyapplet1_1.1.0-7_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/libckyapplet1-dev_1.1.0-7_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/coolkey/coolkey_1.1.0-7_i386.deb
dpkg -i libckyapplet1_1.0-7_i386.deb libckyapplet1-dev_1.1.0-7_i386.deb coolkey_1.1.0-7_i386.deb

A side note, if you are registered with https://software.forge.mil/, then there is a fix in the project ‘Community CAC’ that includes libcackey which offers a fix for this as well.

7 Responses to “Fixing libcoolkey…”

1. Stephen Pate says:

   February 5, 2011 at 10:48 pm

   Seems to be a typo in the script.

   Line 6 I believe should read “dpkg -i libckyapplet1_1.1.0-7_” instead of “dpkg -i libckyapplet1_1.0-7_”

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2. Stephen Pate says:

   February 5, 2011 at 10:51 pm

   Thanks though for posting the fix. I was not looking forward to messing with cackey.

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3. zbert says:

   February 7, 2011 at 1:41 am

   Fixed, thanks for the keen eye. Back to Basic Traing, complacency kill, attention to detail, etc.

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   • Jeneva says:

     April 9, 2011 at 11:14 pm

     4fpOze Good point. I hadn’t thought about it quite that way.

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4. mirodeniro says:

   September 20, 2011 at 3:42 am

   Would love to get my hands on 64bit libcackey.so, but cant find it anywhere and cannot enter forge.mil site.

   Could please someone send it to me?

   Great blog though.

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   • zbert says:

     October 13, 2011 at 1:01 am

     Sorry, the only place of I know of it is through forge.mil. Some googling may have a better result, as it’s been out for awhile now.

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     • zbert says:

       December 23, 2011 at 7:40 am

       I recently found libcackey again when I reinstalled Ubuntu. It definitely has been moving away from forge.mil!

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