Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 30 September 2011 08:46:48 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 30/09/11 01:54, Lisi wrote:
> > I am trying, without success, to run:
> >
> > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html
> >
> > The problem is the applet.  The Java I have on  my Lenny system is too
> > old. Hardly surprising.  So I switched to Wheezy.  Still not OK.  I
> > checked: I only had openjdk-6-jre.  So I installed openjdk-7-jre and its
> > dependencies. Still no joy.  I imagine that iceweasel is not using it at
> > all, or not in the way that jre 7 needs.  What can I do to run this
> > applet?  This is a course in OSS, so it shouldn't require anything
> > proprietary.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Lisi
>
> Despite your optimistic expectations - it works with Oracle's JDK
> 6.0_27. I tried with openjdk-7-jre but the browser claimed it needed a
> plugin... yet update-alternatives looked correct. I haven't tried with
> icedtea.

Thank you for this.  I did try this, but as I have said elsewhere, I had in 
the end tried so many different things that they must all have been tripping 
over each other, and it didn't work.

Lisi