Re: about java and wheezy

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 13:14:44 +0000, Francesco Pietra wrote:

> In answer to all who kindly considered the matter.
> 
> I was to quick in posting. Having upgraded from squeeze to wheezy i386 I
> ha such troubles. Then , wanting emacs gchempaint, and pieces of kde
> (okular k3b), gnome 2 was updated to gnome3, which I did not know.
> 
> I could install libreoffice, true firefox (avoiding iceweasel which does
> not support google fully and, more importantly, some of my connections
> to servers) and openjdk-6-jdk (now without any deletion).

Ah, that makes more sense to me :-)

> However, although firefox is set to java, java does not work in running
> common molecular applications (movies). Is any independent test of such
> installation of java available? Which outputs should I show in order to
> get help?

Go here and check for the output:

http://www.java.com/es/download/installed.jsp

Also, from Firefox's address bar go to "about:plugins" and look for the 
Java path. Should you experience any problem with the open Java, you can 
try with Oracle's JRE instead.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón