Re: java applets
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 16:40 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
>
> > Humm, installing sun-java6-plugin (or sun-java5-plugin or
> > icedtea-gcjwebplugin) should pull all the required
> > dependencies.
>
> Yess.. but that means I'll have at least two jre's: sun-java6 and
> the one required by Azureus/Vuze. How can I be sure that they
> won't "bite" each other? Now, with only the openjdk-6-jre
> installed, I don't see any applets working, but at least Iceweasel
> does not crash/become unresponsive, as it did invariably on
> applet-containing pages twhen there were 2 or more jre's.
>
> >> Does anybody know of a decent tutorial for setting up jre,
> >> any jre, on Debian?
>
> > Hopefully, "aptitude install sun-java6-plugin" should be
> > enough.
>
> But I need the openjdk-6-jre as well because of Azureus/Vuze.
To be on the safe side for your tests, you might want to remove openjdk.
> > "doesn't work" is a bit short.
>
> In this case it means: after restarting the browser, the plugin
> does not show in about:plugins.
Can you list the plugins in iceweasel, typically, with the _one_line_
command:
find /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ -name *.so \
| xargs -n 1 readlink -m | xargs dpkg -S
> And applets do not work; I get an
> invitation to click something to download the plugin, but then it
> says that there is no appropriate plugin available.
:(
Franklin
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