On 2010-04-13, Ken Heard <k...@heard.name> wrote: > > A website I want to use would allow access unless my java applet is JRE > 6 update 13 or higher. As far as I can figure out the applet provided > by package sun-java6-bin is update 12. > > - From the Sun Microsystems site I downloaded file jre-6u19-i586.bin; > moved it to directory /usr/lib/jvm, changed ownership to root:root and > permissions to rwxr-xr-x and ran the binary. It created a new directory > /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_19 and opened in that directory a number of > subdirectories and files. > > Next, I needed to add this new JRE to /etc/alternatives. Using the > alternatives configurator provided by package galternatives, as root I > selected 'java' as the alternative to configure and added to the options > list /usr/lib/jvm/1.6.0_19/bin/java and finally selected this new option.
That sets up the alternative for the java executable. So if you type 'java -version' at the command line it should output the correct version. > > After reloading Iceweasel, about:plugins still showed the previous JRE I > was using, /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. > > Assuming that I can use a later version of JRE downloaded from Sun on > Iceweasel 3.5, am I on the right track but did not get the newer version > set up correctly, or is there a different way? The browser plugin uses a different alternative, namely libjavaplugin_oji.so. You will find the target of the alternative in the directory /usr/lib/jvm/1.6.0_19/plugin/i386/ns7/ > > Ken Heard > > > > -- Liam O'Toole Birmingham, United Kingdom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnhsasdb.bu7.liam.p.oto...@dipsy.selfip.org
