Got Java to run with chrome

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:34:39 AM Nigel Ridley wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 09:51 AM, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> > Pastor JW wrote:
> >> Problem being iced tea does not work with things like E-Trade's
> >> streaming quotes or any other financial site's pages that I use. It
> >> in fact wouldn't work with 14 of my most used bookmarked sites
> >> rendering my computer useless for what I needed it to do. I fail to
> >> see what is wrong with having a working computer.
> > 
> > So, if I have read the replies to my original posting correctly, this
> > means that Sun Java is no longer available in the repos for (k)ubuntu
> > etc and so, what ever distro I choose next time, I will have problems
> > with some web sites because of this.
> > 
> > For the moment then I will stick with Mint 10 which works well. Now I am
> > wondering what I, and others, can do about it with the next upgrade.
> > 
> > Or have I not understood this correctly?
> > 
> > Neil
> 
> Thomas Olsen managed (in this thread) to get it working:
> 
> <quote>
> I got Sun/Oracle working now.
> Downloaded the jre at http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
> Installed in /usr/java and ran:
> 
> mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
> cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
> ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_29/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so .
> </quote>
> 
> Let us know if it works for you too.
> 
> Nigel