[lug] java in iceweasel on debian

[Davide Del Vento]

What do you need java for? I am a big fan on java, but not in the
browser. In fact, that page fails for me as well.

What happens if you type java -version at the prompt?

Do you have no-script or other browser-related setting/plugin blocking java?

Cheers,
Davide

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Steve Sullivan <sullivan at mathcom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running iceweasel 3.5.6, but java seems not to work.
> I tested it by going to java.com and clicking "do I have java".
> I'm running debian squeeze 6.0.5, 64 bit.
>
> This must be a common issue, but I'm not finding workable hits
> on the web.
>
> On iceweasel, edit->preferences->content shows java is enabled.
> Yet any pages requiring java give me the message
>  Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page.
> When I click "install missing plugins" I get
>  The following plugins are available
>    Java runtime environment 1.6 u32
> then next gives
>  Java runtime environment 1.6 u32 not available
> clicking "manually find missing plugins" gives a mozzilla page
>  We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for
>
> Is this a 64 vs 32 bit issue?
> I've installed the sun jdk (did I need to?), so aptitude shows:
>
>  $ aptitude search java | egrep '^i'
>  i A ca-certificates-java            - Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
>  i A java-common                     - Base of all Java packages
>  i A libaccess-bridge-java           - Java Access Bridge for GNOME
>  i A libaccess-bridge-java-jni       - Java Access Bridge for GNOME (jni bindings
>  i A libcommons-beanutils-java       - utility for manipulating JavaBeans
>  i A libcommons-collections3-java    - A set of abstract data type interfaces and
>  i A libcommons-compress-java        - Java API for working with tar, zip and bzi
>  i A libcommons-digester-java        - Rule based XML Java object mapping tool
>  i A libcommons-logging-java         - commmon wrapper interface for several logg
>  i A libdb-je-java                   - Oracle Berkeley Database Java Edition
>  i A libdb4.7-java                   - Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries for Java
>  i A libdb4.7-java-gcj               - Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries for Java
>  i A libhsqldb-java                  - Java SQL database engine
>  i A libhsqldb-java-gcj              - Java SQL database engine (native code)
>  i A libicu4j-java                   - Library for unicode support and internalis
>  i A libjaxp1.3-java                 - Java XML parser and transformer APIs (DOM,
>  i A libjline-java                   - Java library for handling console input
>  i A libjtidy-java                   - a Java port of HTML Tidy, a HTML syntax ch
>  i A liblucene2-java                 - Full-text search engine library for Java(T
>  i A libregexp-java                  - Regular expression library for Java
>  i A libservlet2.5-java              - Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 Java API classes
>  i A openoffice.org-java-common      - office productivity suite -- arch-independ
>  i A plasma-scriptengine-javascript  - the JavaScript script engine for Plasma
>  i A sun-java6-bin                   - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (
>  i   sun-java6-jdk                   - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
>  i A sun-java6-jre                   - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (
>  i A tzdata-java                     - time zone and daylight-saving time data fo
>
>
> Many thanks for any advice -
>
> Steve
>
> ========================================
> Steve Sullivan      sullivan at mathcom.com
>         http://www.mathcom.com
> ========================================
>
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