OK. A quick workaround... So it's been less than an hour and I used a popular ppa to put everything back to 6.26 (it seems nearly the same as the partner version). I then downloaded the latest jre from the Oracle site, executed it to extract the contents and then copied the contents of .../jre1.6.0_30/ over the top of the ppa's newly installed /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/ It's ugly but provides the latest sun jre without the messy hacks suggested by the manual installations. When jre1.6.0_31 and subsequent are needed just repeat the process.
So if this was done as a security measure I understand. There are probably plenty of people not doing what I am doing to upgrade to the latest secure version. I'm just using the 6.26 installation as a framework to provide a nice installation of the latest version. Although it is ugly it is nicer than manual installations. Did I mention the manual installations are rough. Argh. Also, somewhere I saw an Oracle page that was pushing for .deb versions of java/jre on the download page. If it happens that would be nice :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905026 Title: Browser plugin not working after upgrade to Sun jre 1.6.0_26-b03 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/905026/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
