[Mageia-discuss] openjdk Mozilla plugin

TJ andrewsfarm at gmail.com
Tue May 15 04:50:57 CEST 2012


On 05/14/2012 11:49 AM, Sander Lepik wrote:
> 14.05.2012 18:29, TJ kirjutas:
>> Rats! Testing the Mageia 2 RC, and the upgrade to openjdk 1.7 disabled icedtea-web. I know
>> I can install Oracle's JRE and get it to work with that, but I've gotten so I like the way
>> the icedtea plugin works better. Besides, icedtea-web is open source, and Oracle's
>> offering isn't.
>>
>> Is anything in the works to get an icedtea-web that works with the new openjdk?
>>
>> TJ
>>
> I have icedtea-web installed and works just fine. I also have both java-1.7.0-openjdk and
> java-1.6.0-openjdk installed. icedtea-web requires java-1.6.0-openjdk. So i don't see the
> problem.
>
I was wrong about the upgrade breaking it. Apparently, as installed in a 
clean install from the DVD, icedtea-web doesn't work properly. I tried a 
new install on another computer, and when I looked in Firefox the 
icedtea plugin wasn't shown. This was before any upgrades. I removed the 
icedtea-web package and installed it from the repositories. That did it 
- the plugin showed up in Firefox and worked. Went through all the 
upgrades, and it still works.

So I don't know what, but there's something wrong with the installation 
of icedtea-web from the DVD.

TJ





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