On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > I installed a Debian Lenny (amd64), and sun-jdk in addition to the > default gcj based default Java. > > When I access Java content with Firefox (or is IceWeasel) the browsed > prompts me to install JDK... Clicking the prompt shows Sun's website > with download button.
for some reason we (the user of debian) are being pushed to use icedtea
and its java plugin, I don't have a problem with this except for the
fact that the plugin isn't a drop in replacement for the sun plugin, but
its turning into a grin and bear it.
as has been answered in other emails, you need the sun*plugin package
and you need to set the java alternative to sun
>
> I installed that, but nothing changes.
>
> Using update-java-alternatives talks about missing firefox.plugin.so or
> something similar, no matter which of the alternatives I pick.
>
> Where can those plugin shared libraries can be get? Downloading JRE from
> Sun does not install them.
>
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