Re: java runtime in Browser

[Christian Schuerer <debian.lists@quincunx.at>]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 02:17, david wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am new to Linux and Debian, I have installed firefox browser using
> package manager, when I visited site requiring Java, missing plug-in was
> displayed.
>
> I click to install the plug-in in the Firefox page, but it poped up
> unavailable message.
>
> Any idea how to install the plug-in ?

-> http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian

# Grab: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
# apt-get install java-package fakeroot
# fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_**-linux-i586.bin
# dpkg -i sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update**_i386.deb

HTH,
  Chris