openjdk-6-jre broken

[Peter Glässel]

Probably after a recent update, jnlp-files can't be opened anymore (specifically koala.jnlp from evo.caltech.edu).
The command
>javaws -viewer gives the error message

The program 'javaws' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

Synaptic says, openjdk-6-jre is installed. Reinstalling does not help.

        Best regards ... Peter Glassel

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

no, it's in the icedtea-netx package. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/

command-not-found should be fixed for this

[Peter Glässel (glassel)]

Dear Matthias,
    icedtea-netx was installed. I reinstalled, but the problem persists.
Then I saw that libnetx-java was not installed. Installing it did not
solve the problem. Is there a problem with dependencies? When installing
icedtea-netx openjd-6-jre and openjdk-jre-lib were requested!

If I open koala.jnlp via nautilus, icedtea-netx is correctly recognized as
the default application for jnlp. On opening, however, nothing happens.
javaws still reports not being installed.

I hope this problem can be sorted out.
I know that 12.04 does NOT have this problem.

        Best regards ... Peter Glassel

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Matthias Klose wrote:

> no, it's in the icedtea-netx package. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/
>
> command-not-found should be fixed for this
>
> ** Package changed: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) => command-not-found (Ubuntu)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047423
>
> Title:
> openjdk-6-jre broken
>
> Status in “command-not-found” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Probably after a recent update, jnlp-files can't be opened anymore (specifically koala.jnlp from evo.caltech.edu).
> The command
> >javaws -viewer gives the error message
>
> The program 'javaws' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
> sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
>
> Synaptic says, openjdk-6-jre is installed. Reinstalling does not help.
>
> Best regards ... Peter Glassel
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found/+bug/1047423/+subscriptions
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[Peter Glässel (glassel)]

Hi Matthias,
    it's me again. Maybe the only problem is that there is no javaws in
/usr/bin installed.

         Regards ... Peter

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Matthias Klose wrote:

> no, it's in the icedtea-netx package. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/
>
> command-not-found should be fixed for this
>
> ** Package changed: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu) => command-not-found (Ubuntu)
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047423
>
> Title:
> openjdk-6-jre broken
>
> Status in “command-not-found” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Probably after a recent update, jnlp-files can't be opened anymore (specifically koala.jnlp from evo.caltech.edu).
> The command
> >javaws -viewer gives the error message
>
> The program 'javaws' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
> sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
>
> Synaptic says, openjdk-6-jre is installed. Reinstalling does not help.
>
> Best regards ... Peter Glassel
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/command-not-found/+bug/1047423/+subscriptions
>

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lisle Mose (lisle-mose)]

This also happened for me after upgrading from 10 to 11.10 last night:

lmose@lmose-Latitude-E5520:~$ javaws
The program 'javaws' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install icedtea-netx
lmose@lmose-Latitude-E5520:~$ sudo apt-get install icedtea-netx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
icedtea-netx is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Manually adding the link to javaws in /usr/bin is a workaround.

Thanks!