Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/24/2010 11:28 AM, m.roth at 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.... mark