John Cremona wrote: > Thanks for the detailed instructions. I have never heard of > xulrunner. Something of that name was installed but I installed a > newer (?) version using synaptic. I also used update-alternatives to > get java to point to the sun version. Now I have this: > > j...@ubuntu%sudo update-alternatives --display java > java - status is manual. > link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1061 > slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz > /usr/bin/gij-4.2 - priority 42 > slave java.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gij-4.2.1.gz > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java - priority 63 > slave java.1.gz: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/man/man1/java.1.gz > Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. > > j...@ubuntu%sudo update-alternatives --display xulrunner > xulrunner - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9 > /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9 - priority 50 > /usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner - priority 50 > Current `best' version is /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9. > > I don't know what 'best' means, it still seems to like the look of the > open jdk for java. > > After all this and restarting firefox there is still no mention of > java in about:plugins. I find it hard to believe that it is not there > since the Preferences setting for jave is enabled" and surely there > are many other web things which would not work without java (gmail for > a start).
Gmail almost surely uses javascript, not java, which is different. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
