what to install to have firefox java plugin

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:16:52 -0500
Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> >> Have you installed the icedtea6-plugin ? 
> > 
> > Isn't icedtea deprecated in favour of openjdk?
> > I already have openjdk installed, is it absolutely needed to also
> > have icedtea?
> 
> No, IcedTea is not deprecated.  It's just a naming issue; openjdk in
> Intrepid /is/ a build of IcedTea.  See
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/openjdk-6-jre .  Unfortunately,
> this convention didn't extend to the plug-in, which is called
> icedtea6-plugin .
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 

Thanks, Matt.
I wondered why there was no openjdk plugin.


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