On 09/09/2012 06:09 AM, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:53:29 -0400
Marc Paré wrote:
Hmm, something changed and I can no longer play java applets! My java
was just updated to java-1.7.0-openjdk, but, I am not sure if this is
when I lost my java plugin; it may have happened a little while ago
before the update.
How do I go about installing a java plugin on my FF (Mageia2, 64bit
box).
For openjdk you need the icedtea-web rpm.
Charles
And the icedtea-web plugin from the Mageia 2 repositories works with
openjdk 1.6.x, not 1.7.x. I'm told by one of the Mageia developers that
because Mageia's icedtea-web uses that openjdk, it is not susceptible to
the zero-day bug plaguing Oracle's jre 1.7.x versions. Both openjdk
versions have been installed on my 32-bit system.
Icedtea-web 1.3 was released a few days ago. It may find its way into
Mageia 2 if there are important bug and/or security fixes, but my guess
is we will have to wait for Mageia 3.
TJ
