Anybody got Sun's Java running on F8rc3?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 5 19:37:41 UTC 2007


Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> It appears though that this version of java has no support for 
>>> version 5 or 6 features.  So now I need to go back and figure out how 
>>> to install Sun's java and make it work.  Maybe it will this time.
>> Why do you assume it doesnt support 5 or 6 features? Iced Tea is a 
>> derivative of the latest OpenJDK.
>>
>> Rahul
> 
> Because it announces itself in about:plugins as GCJ Web Browser 
> Plugin 1.4, and it won't run my version 6 applet.

Right but that's different from IcedTea. Sun applet viewer has non-free 
bits still IIRC and GCJ web plugin works on both x86 and x86_64.

Rahul




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