Java on Jaunty

[Liam Proven]

2009/7/13 Steve Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>:

> 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?
>>
>> I then manually installed sun-java6-plugin and this sucked in all the
>> Java 1.6 JVM and now it plays.
>>
>> Is Java no longer part of the restricted-extras package, or does it
>> just skip the plugin?
>>
> I believe, since Sun open sourced Java, it is no longer part of
> restricted extras.

Makes sense, in a perverse sort of way.

I guess the key thing I need to take away is that I now need to
manually install sun-java6-plugin, *not* sun-java6-bin.


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