Re: java applets

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Hello,

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:16 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow
> me to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of
> (at least)
> 
> default-jre
> gcj-4.4-jre
> gcj-jre
> icedtea-6-jre-cacao
> openoffice.org (includes its own jre, apparently)
> openjdk-6-jre (required by Azureus/Vuze; it does not seem to
> accept other Javas)
> sun-java5-jre
> sun-java6-jre

The JRE package don't provide web browser plugins (to use applet), you
need to install an extra package, which contains the plugin.

> Today I did another attempt: rigorously dpkg --purge'd any trace
> of any other jre than openjdk-6-jre. It does not have a mozilla
> plugin, but "suggests" installing icedtea6-plugin and
> sun-java6-fonts. But then sun-java6-fonts wants to install
> sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-jre, and "suggests" sun-java6-plugin
> and ia32-sun-java6-plugin.

Yep, so I suppose you installed the whole thing.

> And the icedtea6-plugin does not work...

"doesn't work" is a bit short.
What did you do (restart the web browser?), What did you test?, what
worked what didn't?
Does the page "about:plugins" lists the plugins?
Did you test http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml ?

> This is dependency hell.

Humm, installing sun-java6-plugin (or sun-java5-plugin or
icedtea-gcjwebplugin) should pull all the required dependencies.

> Does anybody know of a decent tutorial
> for setting up jre, any jre, on Debian?

Hopefully, "aptitude install sun-java6-plugin" should be enough.

> With only one boundary condition: it should work. I haven't been able
> to see applets working for about half a year now.



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