9.10: No java?

[Kaj Haulrich]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 22:55:30 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Even after installing sun-java6-plugin and sun-java6-jre neither
> java.com nor Open Office seem to notice that I have Java
>  installed.
> 
> karmic1 at kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
>  sun-java6-jre [sudo] password for karmic1:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> sun-java6-plugin is already the newest version.
> sun-java6-jre is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> karmic1 at kubuntu:~$
> 
> Do I need to install anything else? Soft link? This is on Kubuntu
> 9.10, no additional sources added to apt.

Maybe the java version from karmic isn't the newest one. I had the 
same issue when checking with www.sun.com which told me that I did 
not have the latest version. So I installed the one from Sun and now 
it is recognized and works just fine.

After that installation (running a script in the supplied tarfile) 
one has to manually symlink to the various plugins-directories, 
like:
libjavaplugin_oji.so -> 
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_16/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

which also tells us that the newest version is 1.6.0_16

HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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