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

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