Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

[Tom Rauchenwald <its.sec@gmx.net>]

andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> writes:

> 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?

Enable non-free in your /etc/sources.list, like this e.g.:
,----
| deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
`----
Of course replace sid with what you are using.
Then aptitude update and
,----[ aptitude search jre ]
| p   docbook-jrefentry               - DocBook XML JRefEntry DTD                 
| p   libjrexx-java                   - automaton based regluar expression API for
| p   sun-java5-jre                   - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
| i   sun-java6-jre                   - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (
`----
Ah! Looks like you found what you needed!
aptitude install sun-java5-jre (or 6) and you're done.

> Many thanks
>
> A

Tom