Anybody got Sun's Java running on F8rc3?

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Mon Nov 5 20:13:20 UTC 2007


>Knute Johnson wrote:
>
>You have to get it from the Sun site. It is not Iced Tea since the web 
>plugin is based on GCJ code.

I understand that if I want Sun's Java I have to get it from Sun.  
That's what I originally tried to install and it didn't work.

>> Non-free bits or not, Sun's Java and the plugin worked just fine on 
>> F7 and all the previous versions.
>
>Doesn't change the fact that Fedora won't ship that non-free code and 
>the GCJ plugin worked on everything I tried it out on.

Fedora didn't ship with icedtea either, at least the Live CD didn't.

Please try

http://www.knutejohnson.com/asteroids.html

and let me know if it works for you.

-- 
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...





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