How to install sun JRE (for mozilla plugin) on Fedora 10

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Wed Dec 3 15:40:34 UTC 2008


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: How to install sun JRE (for mozilla plugin) on Fedora 10
From: Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
<fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: 12/02/2008 11:10 PM

> Hi All;
> 
> I need to access java (the mozilla JRE plugin) for a client VPN - however I've 
> found that there is no 64bit plugin available.  
> 
> Is there a way around this ?
> 

Sun Microsystems, in their infinite wisdom, has determined that 64-bit 
computing is a server-only field. They have no plans to ever make a 
64-bit binary plugin available. You're stuck using the open source 
OpenJDK (known as IcedTea) plugin.




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