On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:14 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Still no java browser plugin for Centos? I've been reading the web all night on this, getting angry. I can't find any explanation about why EPEL did have a working browser plugin, but then Centos introduced versions of those same packages that had the plugin removed. Not to mention the fact that Centos keeps the older version (b09) of java-1.6.0, and yet yum seems to think it is a newer version.
I agree with the original poster. Not having the java plugin is fine on servers, but for users here who *do* use it as a desktop, my choices are to either not update openjdk or install Sun's Java, which makes openjdk pointless.
mark
As luck would have it, I have copies of the java-1.6.0 b12 EPEL RPMS that were offered before Centos added java-1.6.0 b09 as an "upgrade" on my home page.
The SRPM is here
http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/5/i386/epel-source/packages
And the RPMS EPEL had offered are here
http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/5/i386/epel/packages
The RedHat/Centos version b09 is heavily patched for some security things and also to disable the plugin (why??). The Epel version is b12, newer, but not so security patched.