Hello, On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 14:16 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I just want to install a Java runtime environment which will allow > me to see Java applets in action. It seems I have the choice of > (at least) > > default-jre > gcj-4.4-jre > gcj-jre > icedtea-6-jre-cacao > openoffice.org (includes its own jre, apparently) > openjdk-6-jre (required by Azureus/Vuze; it does not seem to > accept other Javas) > sun-java5-jre > sun-java6-jre
The JRE package don't provide web browser plugins (to use applet), you need to install an extra package, which contains the plugin. > Today I did another attempt: rigorously dpkg --purge'd any trace > of any other jre than openjdk-6-jre. It does not have a mozilla > plugin, but "suggests" installing icedtea6-plugin and > sun-java6-fonts. But then sun-java6-fonts wants to install > sun-java6-bin and sun-java6-jre, and "suggests" sun-java6-plugin > and ia32-sun-java6-plugin. Yep, so I suppose you installed the whole thing. > And the icedtea6-plugin does not work... "doesn't work" is a bit short. What did you do (restart the web browser?), What did you test?, what worked what didn't? Does the page "about:plugins" lists the plugins? Did you test http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml ? > This is dependency hell. Humm, installing sun-java6-plugin (or sun-java5-plugin or icedtea-gcjwebplugin) should pull all the required dependencies. > Does anybody know of a decent tutorial > for setting up jre, any jre, on Debian? Hopefully, "aptitude install sun-java6-plugin" should be enough. > With only one boundary condition: it should work. I haven't been able > to see applets working for about half a year now. More on http://wiki.debian.org/Java -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
