[lug] java in iceweasel on debian

[Steve Sullivan]

Why?  Some web sites I would like to use require java.

$ type java
java is hashed (/usr/bin/java)

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8.13) (6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

In iceweasel, edit->preferences->content shows 
  enable javascript
  enable java
both are selected.

Steve



On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:57:01AM -0600, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> 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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