IcedTea - HELP!

[iaskedalice09]

I installed the openJDK 6 package and icedtea6-plugin for Firefox. Yet the Java page I visit (there's only one, aleks.com) STILL pops up a "I don't want to work" page. I assume I have to make a symbolic link, but I can't find a file to link. Assistance please?

Thanks so much!

[Chemical Imbalance]

uninstall that plugin and install "sun-java6-plugin" instead. It works much better than icedtea.

[iaskedalice09]

I would prefer to use a Free Software alternative. For now I have installed sun-java6-jre but would you mind telling me where I can link the .so file? Thanks.

[novafluxx]

You'll need to install the plugin too, just installing the JRE won't install the plugin!

[Chemical Imbalance]

The free software versions simply don't work as well now.

I believe '/usr/lib64/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64' is what you are looking for? (unless you are using 32-bit...)

[iaskedalice09]

Using 32bit. Which file(s) should I symbolically link? I think the second end is in the mozilla plugins folder, and I know where that is.

[Nullack]

iceadtea didnt work and there has been ubuntu bug work going on. Synch to main and try it again now that the bug has been fixed.

[Chemical Imbalance]

I don't know what you have to link to because I'm using the plugin and firefox from the repos, so it automatically links. I tried looking through my folders, but I can't tell you where atm.

[Zorael]

The plugin itself is at /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so, provided you have the icedtea6-plugin package installed. I'd make a symbolic link in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ to one of the java plugin symlinks in /etc/alternatives/, and then make sure it points to the real file with sudo update-alternatives --config <said symlink>. I think it defaulted to some xulrunner*javaplugin.so alternative on my system.

The bug, by the way, has been fixed. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-6/+bug/344705.