Java on Jaunty

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/13 Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>:
> Liam,
>
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 02:08 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Another question about the same old PC from my previous post.
>>
>> I installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package. However, Java still
>> didn't work in Firefox. Is this normal for 9.04?
>
> The default java for jaunty is openjdk, not the Sun java packages.
> That includes icedtea6-plugin as the plugin for browsers.

I see.

> ubuntu-restricted-extras lists the following:
>  Recommends: icedtea6-plugin
>  Recommends: sun-java6-jre
>
> but doesn't list sun-java6-plugin.
>
>>
>> I then manually installed sun-java6-plugin and this sucked in all the
>> Java 1.6 JVM and now it plays.
>
> There have been bugs (some of them beng significant) in the icedtea java
> plugin, particularly for 64-bit jaunty.  As I have (like you) installed
> the sun plugin (now that one is available:), most of my issues have
> disappeared.

This might explain things, if it's a recent chance. On 8.04, when I
install u-r-e, I got Java, including in Firefox. In 9.04, I didn't,
but now, at least I can manually load it. Good to know.


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