[CentOS] JRE 8.1 for CentOS6

Thu Sep 14 22:59:09 UTC 2017
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
> On 14.09.2017 23:56, Larry Martell wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Ulf Volmer <u.volmer at u-v.de> wrote:
>
>>> Again, please enter 'about:plugins' in the address bar of your browser
>>> to make sure, that the right java version is activated.
>>
>> This is what I get from that:
>>
>> application/x-java-vm IcedTea class,jar
>
> That's OpenJDK instead of Oracle.

Do you know how I can associate IcedTea with Oracle's JRE?

>> Then they asked me to run this:
>>
>> alternatives --config java
>>
>> There are 2 programs which provide 'java'.
>>
>>   Selection    Command
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> *+ 1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
>>    2           /usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/bin/jav
>>
>
> Maybe you should also try 'alternatives --config javaws' to switch to
> the Oracle java webstart. But i'm not sure that this is possible for javaws.

No, that gave no output.

>>> And at last, please check the security options with jcontrol. Newer java
>>> version are more restricted about security settings.
>>
>> I don't seem to have jcontrol
>
> Should be part of your JRE installation:
>
> [ulf at x1 ~]$ rpm -qlp Downloads/jre-8u144-linux-x64.rpm |grep bin/jcontrol
> /usr/java/jre1.8.0_144/bin/jcontrol

Ah, yes, I do have that. It's the same as running ControlPanel - that
is where they had me try puttin the IP address of the IMM in the
exception site list.