On Thu, 06 May 2010 at 09:49PM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: > Sounds like Ubuntu has stopped producing packages for Sun's Java 6 > JRE, and instead is now committed to the OpenJDK, IcedTea combo (as of > 10.04, lucid). > > http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java says: > > "Oracle (Sun) Java Runtime Environment (JRE) has been removed from the > regular software repositories of Ubuntu 10.04. The reason: it's open > source brother OpenJDK (and the IcedTea plugin) is a good alternative, > for most people at least." > > I've found Sun's Java to be the only reliable way to use JMOL on > Ubuntu. The above could be good news (the open source version runs > JMOL just fine) or bad news (Sage is not "most people" and it just got > a whole lot more complicated to install Sun's Java). > > Has anybody tested JMOL on a fresh 10.04 Ubuntu install?
I have a 10.04 VM, and I just installed icedtea-plugin and tried a simple 3D plot and it worked. For what it's worth... Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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