Les Mikesell wrote:
On 9/24/2010 11:28 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Apparently I don't have the java plugin browser installed. I've tried to install it using the rpm.bin file at http://java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=java.com, but it's erroring out: "/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Text file busy".
If you want to keep it simple, I would not try to install at the same time the base CentOS OpenJdk RPMs and the Sun RPM. If you don't care much about control (in the free software sense) on your Java installation and just need the plugin, I guess you should go for the Sun RPM after uninstalling the base OpenJdk packages.
Maybe some people on the list have other opinions / tips.
Well, other than that openjdk has not supplied/supported the java browser plugin since last year, and the "workaround" is to install
Sun's, er,
sorry, Oracle's java....
Has Oracle been any more sensible about building an RHEL-style (with appropriate locations and alternatives setup) RPM than Sun was?
Haven't seen anything yet... except where Oracle put their name in place of Sun's in the latest release of java, and *broke* a huge amount of software... including Eclipse, becuase for some inane Java (sorry, I'm repeating myself) reason, they were looking for the string "Sun Microsystems", instead of *just* the version and subversion release numbers....
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