> Dear linuxers, > > According to this blog ( > http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_re > moved_from_debian_u ) > from Sylvestre, responsible for maintaining sun-java*, Java did not > renew it's license, and so, sun-java6-jre and sun-java-plugin will not > be available on Wheezy. > > The author suggests: > apt-get --purge remove sun-java6-jre && apt-get install openjdk-7-jre > in another (more recent) post.
Several folks have recommended the icedtea plug-in, that's a good one. What I have done on my (squeeze) systems is, get the Sun Java tgz, and unpack it into /usr/local/stow/jre1.7.0_05 (or whatever, the tgz will create the directory), and then push it into /usr/local with "stow". The browser plug-in will then be in /usr/local/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so, you can sym-link to it from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, and it will then be preserved across versions if you un-stow an old one and re-stow a new one, and almost all browsers will find it there. (Konqueror won't, but Konqueror's java set-up is different anyways). I did this because I had a few things that absolutely insisted on havnig Sun Java -- it's a bit fiddly to set up (and you may have to learn about "stow", but this is time well spent...), but it's reasonably robust. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201208142205.17815.rei...@bellatlantic.net