2009 May 24 - Sun
Sun Java 6 on Debian Lenny 5.01
I'd think Debian Linux should get simpler all the time. Maybe not. My tricks from
Installing Sun Java on Debian Lenny didn't yield the desired
results.
Perhaps if I had performed a standard Debian Lenny Desktop install, I would not have had
this problem. Instead, I took the expert/custom route. During the beginning of the
install of Debian Lenny, I chose the advanced options where I could install a KDE desktop.
I'm not sure if the standard variation would have worked out of the box, but, whatever, this
one didn't.
I had to go to
Debian Tutorials to find the answer, which was a basic one-liner, a long, but it required one preparation
step before hand. The directory /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins needed to be corrected first. Then the one liner
could be performed: ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.12/jre/plugin/i386/n s7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/
With that in place, I can now run Java applets in IceWeasel.
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