[CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2017 at 14:51, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
>>> On 14.09.2017 19:54, Larry Martell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Where would I do that? This is something running from a browser.
>>>
>>> Is the java plugin enabled in your browser? That's not the default nowadays.
>>>
>>> if you are running firefox you can check this by opening 'about:plugins'.
>>>
>>> here - configured for older HP ILOs -  for example, the plugin is linked
>>> into my firefox profile:
>>>
>>> [ulf at bob ~]$ ll .mozilla/firefox/ln5frqem.default/plugins
>>> total 0
>>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ulf ulf 37 Apr 21  2016 libnpjp2.so ->
>>> /opt/jre1.7.0_51/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
>>
>> I am running a very old versiond of FF, 24.6.0, and the menus and
>> files are different. But I do not have a java plugin. But please note
>> that this used to work until today when I upgraded the firmware in the
>> IMM. That changed the java version required, so I updated that. But
>> the FF version and config has not changed.
>
> So it sounds like the links needed for the plugin to work are not
> configured on the system. So you have some symlinks pointing to the
> openjdk with the system and some pointing the one you tried to
> install. I don't know how you installed this new jdk so it may be for
> many different reasons.

I installed it by downloading the rpm and installing that. IBM said on
my older FF the app/plugin is called JNLP and I should change the
setting for that to 'always ask' and then when it asks use javaws - I
did that but it still fails.