[ubuntu-in] Java plugin for gusty

[Onkar Shinde]

Mir Nazim wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Mir Nazim wrote:
>>     
>>> On 11/1/07, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On 11/1/07, Mir Nazim <mirnazim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hello guy
>>>>>
>>>>> here I am again to bug you guys. I am running Gusty on AMD Turion 64
>>>>> x2. Now I need Java plugin for firefox/swiftfox. I found out that
>>>>> sun-java6-plugin package is not available for 64 bit version. But even
>>>>> sun-java5-plugin is not showing up in repositories. Any idea what to
>>>>> do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Moreover, Gusty finds and installs something called IceTea and GCJ
>>>>> plugin when you click the "CLick here to install missing plugin" in
>>>>> firefox/swiftfox.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas how can i get it working.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Icedtea is a project to fill in gaps of currently in works Free
>>>> (GPLed) version of Java. It replaces some components that are not Free
>>>> yet with alternates available in other projects like classpath.
>>>>
>>>> Just install icedtea packages in gutsy and get going. :-)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Thanks Onkar
>>>
>>> But IcedTea packages are already installed. icedtea-java-bin,
>>> icedtea-java-jre, icedtea-java-plugin are already there. but still
>>> applets do not load.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> What is output of 'ls -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so'? Does
>> it point to correct file
>> (/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so in my case)?
>> If it doesn't, try 'sudo update-alternatives --auto
>> firefox-javaplugin.so'. I think 'sudo update-java-alternatives' should
>> help to update all alternatives related to java.
>>     
>
> Here are the outputs of the two comands.
> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so
> /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so -> /usr/lib/gcj-4.2/libgcjwebplugin.so
>
> $ sudo update-java-alternatives -a
> No alternatives for appletviewer.
> No alternatives for apt.
> No alternatives for extcheck.
> No alternatives for idlj.
> No alternatives for jar.
> No alternatives for jarsigner.
> No alternatives for javac.
> No alternatives for javadoc.
> No alternatives for javah.
> No alternatives for javap.
> No alternatives for java-rmi.cgi.
> No alternatives for jconsole.
> No alternatives for jdb.
> No alternatives for jhat.
> No alternatives for jinfo.
> No alternatives for jmap.
> No alternatives for jps.
> No alternatives for jrunscript.
> No alternatives for jsadebugd.
> No alternatives for jstack.
> No alternatives for jstat.
> No alternatives for jstatd.
> No alternatives for native2ascii.
> No alternatives for rmic.
> No alternatives for schemagen.
> No alternatives for wsgen.
> No alternatives for wsimport.
> No alternatives for xjc.
>   
Do you have gcj installed? It may be interfering with icedtea. Check the 
output of  'dpkg -l gcj*'. If there is any gcj related package installed 
then do 'sudo apt-get --purge autoremove gcj-4.2-base' (or similar) and 
then try setting java alternatives again with 'sudo 
update-java-alternatives --auto'.


Onkar