At Mon, 04 May 2009 13:28:54 +0100 (BST), (Ted Harding) wrote:
The Pidley Mountain Rescue Team seems to have changed its website:
http://www.pidleymountainrescue.org.uk/
I can no longer view what they've been up to, since I'm now told that "additionaql plugins are required to display all the media on this page". When I click to install the missing plugins, it announces "Java Runtime Environment", but when I try to comtinue it says "No plugins were installed. Java Runtime Environment Not Available."
Then taking the option for "Manual Install" I get shown a choice of RPM (jre-6u13-linux-i586-rpm.bin) or self-extracting binary file (jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin).
I'm running Debian Etch with Iceweasel browswer. I've looked into what synaptic comes up with when I search on "java" or "runtime" or "java runtime". Up comes a lot of stuff, of which one is Java runtime environment using GIJ java-gcj-compat is a collection of wrapper scripts, symlinks and jar files. It is meant to provide a Java-RTE-like interface to the GIJ/GCJ tool set. (and it says version 1.0.65-10, whereas the java runtime offered by the "Manual install" is "version 6, update 13").
I'm hesitating, because I don't want to do the wrong thing here, nor mess things up by installing incomplete or incompatible things.
I'd be grateful for advice about installing java runtime in a proper way in my setup.
If you add non-free to your APT repositories you should be able to install the package sun-java6-plugin. However, for etch it's only available as a backport. It's in Debian non-free from lenny onwards. It provides the official Sun version which is pretty likely to work as the site designer intended.
Also, who uses Java applets anymore?
Best, Richard