9.10: No Java?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 11:15 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Monday 02 Nov 2009 21:07:36 Clay Weber wrote:
> > On Monday 02 November 2009 02:45:36 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 15:29 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 01 Nov 2009 23:59:14 Ric Moore wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:51 -0600, Robert Collard wrote:
> > > > > > >Well, crap. I'm having all sorts of problems getting Sun's
> > > > > > > Wonderland Project to work. I have version 1.6.0_15 installed. I
> > > > > > > hope there is an upgrade soon! Ric
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just installed kubuntu-restricted-extras in synaptic and it
> > > > > > upgraded my Java to 1.6.0.16
> > > > > > Bob
> > > > > > Robert Collard
> > > > > > Springfield, IL
> > > > >
> > > > > Huh, I just checked and I have it enabled. Not seeing java 1.6.0.16
> > > > > offered, even after an update. :( Ric
> > > >
> > > > Have you tried installing sun-java6-bin or sun-java6-plugin? As in all
> > > > the installs I've done recently, only installing
> > > > kubuntu-restricted-extras or ubuntu-restricted-extras wasn't enough.
> > >
> > > Oh yes, I have sun-java-bin installed but it's not the latest version
> > > others report having. Strange. Ric
> > 
> > In karmic, I have the 1.6.0.15. It doesn't work with Konqueror, but is fine
> >  on Firefox.
> > 
> > I can get it to show an applet after a refresh here:
> > http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml
> > Is it safe to say Konq'a java support is spotty at best?
> 
> I see what you mean now. Just tried Konqueror in both Jaunty and Karmic and 
> neither of them seem to have Java working although on the Sun test page I get 
> 1 or 2 coffee bean icons in the bottom bar.
> 
> With Jaunty and Firefox 3.5.4 the above page tells me I've got Java 6 Update 
> 16. So, why has Jaunty got 16 and Karmic and Lucid only got 15?
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sun-java6

After failing to snag the update to SunJava through synaptic, I figured
I just google on it and snag the .deb file directly. You're right, there
seems to be no version 16 for karmic. <sighs> An oversight most likely.
Ric



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