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 eachIceweasel 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 AThe 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-binThanksI'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.AThats odd, it should create a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.sowhat 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.soJeff It gives me something very similar: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.soI 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?AI can only speak for iceweasel, but there should be a link in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.soIf 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?JeffYes, about:plugins shows 3 main groups of application/x-java-bean, x-java-vm, and x-java-appletAm I supposed to be seeing something in addition to these? ANo, 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 .JeffWhen 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 6.1Now 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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