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:
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
No, that sounds normal, at least we know that the java plugin is loading.
But the site shouldn't be telling you that you are missing the java plunin
though .
Jeff
When I go to http://www.java.com/en/ and click the link that asks "Do I have
java?", which opens
http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 then the
result is
that I don't have the recommended version for my browser (iceweasel). I have
removed sun-java6 and installed sun-java5, run the update-java-alternatives
command and still get the same result. The recommended version of java the
sun/java site is 6.1
Now it is quite possible that the site may default to that in order to
promote its latest release, so I am quite willing to consider that another
java-rich site may provide a better/more accurate test. Do you know of any
site that may prove a worthwhile place to test the java installation?
Cheers
A
I get the same thing. It looks like the java site is complaining because
the version in the repositories its 6.0 and not the newest 6.1. I
personally haven't had any problems with the version of java provided from
the debian repositories. All the sites I have visited have been just
fine.
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