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[Nigel Ridley]

On 10/26/2011 09:51 AM, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> Pastor JW wrote:
>> Problem being iced tea does not work with things like E-Trade's streaming
>> quotes or any other financial site's pages that I use. It in fact wouldn't
>> work with 14 of my most used bookmarked sites rendering my computer useless
>> for what I needed it to do. I fail to see what is wrong with having a working
>> computer.
>>
>
> So, if I have read the replies to my original posting correctly, this means that Sun Java is no
> longer available in the repos for (k)ubuntu etc and so, what ever distro I choose next time, I
> will have problems with some web sites because of this.
>
> For the moment then I will stick with Mint 10 which works well. Now I am wondering what I, and
> others, can do about it with the next upgrade.
>
> Or have I not understood this correctly?
>
> Neil
>

Thomas Olsen managed (in this thread) to get it working:

<quote>
I got Sun/Oracle working now.
Downloaded the jre at http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Installed in /usr/java and ran:

mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins
cd ~/.mozilla/plugins
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_29/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so .
</quote>

Let us know if it works for you too.

Nigel