upgraded to Hardy now java doesn't work: SOLVED

[Haneef Bashir]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:51 AM, John L Fjellstad <john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org>
wrote:

> "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.
>
thanks John your advise did the trick, icedtea-gcjwebplugin was installed so
after uninstalling it everything worked fine.

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