icedtea-7-plugin not working in firefox

[donsy]

When trying to display a website with applets I get the following error:

icedteanp plugin error: Failed to run /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java.  For more detail rerun "firefox -g" in a terminal window.

In Firefox Tools->Add-ons->Plugins, IcedTea shows up as:

IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.2.3 (1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.2))

Other info:
~$ java -version

java version "1.7.0_21"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.3.9) (7u21-2.3.9-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)

~$ update-java-alternatives -l

java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 1051 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

~$ dpkg -l icedtea-7-plugin

ii  icedtea-7-plugin   1.2.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.2  web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and IcedTea to execute Java applets

[donsy]

Bump?

[donsy]

Another bump.

[Jim_Bryan]

Fix is listed here: http://www.maketecheasier.com/instal...ntu/2012/05/14
Basically:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_04/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugin

Done.IcedTea in Firefox now works.

[adv0cat3]

Fix is listed here: http://www.maketecheasier.com/instal...ntu/2012/05/14
Basically:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_04/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugin

Done.IcedTea in Firefox now works.

This is NOT the solution. If you read the article you yourself linked you can see that the sim link is required only for Oracle java installations but OP has clearly stated he has OpenJDK.

My personal issue is that I have Open JDK 7 and IcedTea7 both installed on FireFox 24.7 and Java applets are not loading.

[QIII]

And this very old thread, discussing versions of FF and OpenJDK that are very old, is in need of a nap.

Rather than raising the dead, it would be best to begin a new thread.