upgraded to Hardy now java doesn't work

[John L Fjellstad]

"Haneef Bashir" <darkfena313 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
> I had Xububtu Gutsy installed on my system and java was working fine (i use
> java to edit my website). when i upgraded to Hardy java stoppd working
> Firrst i thought that there might be a problem with the new firefox 3 so i
> tried so tried to launch my webpage editing tools for my site using
> Epiphany, only to get an error saying that java doesn't seem to be
> installed. i went to the Ubuntu website to see if this bug was reported and
> if there was a simple fix, but because of my inexperience with computers and
> linux jargon i as able to get anywhere. can someone help?
> thanks in advance.

Check if icedtea-gcjwebplugin is installed.  For some reason
[kx]ubuntu-restricted-extras pulls this package in and replaces the sun
java package.  You can remove this package (icedtea-gcjwebplugin), then
sun java will work, or you can run update-java-alternatives to set sun
java to be the preferred java package.

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