On 21 October 2012 21:28, Tony Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 21/10/12 20:25, Colin Law wrote: >> On 21 October 2012 18:20, Tony Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Colin, >>> >>> On 21/10/12 16:44, Colin Law wrote: >>>> On 21 October 2012 16:42, Tony Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Colin, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You probably need the plugin. Install icedtea-plugin, which is the one >>>>> that is part of openjdk. >>>> >>>> icedtea-6-plugin in fact. >>> >>> Both will work. icedtea-plugin depends on icedtea-6-plugin. I presume >>> when Java 7 becomes the default icedtea-plugin will eventually depend on >>> icedtea-7-plugin! >> >> I see. I had not noticed that there is a generic icedtea-plugin. >> Perhaps I should remove the version 6 and install the generic. >> .... >> However having looked further I see that on 12.10 this will actually >> pull in version 7 so I think I need to check how I installed java in >> the first place. > > If you want to keep with the recommended versions of Java for your > particular release then I would install default-jre and icedtea-plugin > and let the dependencies take care of it all. > > You could install icedtea-plugin now without removing icedtea-6-plugin. > It won't do any harm. > > if you want to keep to a version 6 of Java when you upgrade to 12.10, > then stick with openjdk-6-jre and icedtea-6-plugin.
I am already on 12.10, and have been since an early alpha (a clean install). I have looked back through my notes to see how java was installed and I see it was installed automatically when I installed jEdit, so presumably that installed 6. I don't use java for anything else so I will just leave it as it is. I have disabled the plugin in the browsers so there should be no security issues, I can enable it again if I need to run the speedtest again or if I find another site that needs it. Thanks Colin > > There have been some fairly serious security problems with Sun's > versions of Java. I've no idea how openjdk compares. Anyone know? > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [email protected] > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
