Jeff D wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
Jeff D wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
Jeff D wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, andy wrote:
Dear each
Iceweasel is telling me that I have a missing plugin, the JRE,
which I need for a course. I have downloaded
jre-6u1-linux-i586.bin (which is the appropriate plug-in), but:
(i) is this the best thing to be using on a Lenny/Sid system and
(ii) if so, how do I go about installing a *.bin file on my system?
Many thanks
A
The easiest way would be to make sure you have non-free in your
/etc/apt/sources.list , run aptitude update and then aptitude
install sun-java6-bin
Thanks
I've already done that - it still doesn't show up as working in any
of the three browsers I use and when testing at the sun site, it
reports that java6 is not installed. Hence, I want to pursue
Martin's earlier suggestion re: symlinks, but cannot track down
where sun-java6-jre was installed.
A
Thats odd, it should create a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so
what does update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so give you?
it should give you something like this:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Jeff
It gives me something very similar:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
I wasn't aware of that command to be honest, so hence was using find
and whereis.
Thanks - now onto symlinking. Do I have to do this with Konqueror,
Galeon, and Opera as well as Iceweasel?
A
I can only speak for iceweasel, but there should be a link in
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to
/etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
If everything has been installed from apt you really shouldn't need to
symlink anything.
in iceweasel, if you put about:plugins in the address bar, does it
show that the java plugin is loaded?
Jeff
Yes, about:plugins shows 3 main groups of application/x-java-bean,
x-java-vm, and x-java-applet
Am I supposed to be seeing something in addition to these?
A
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