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Jakob Lund (jakob-bebop) wrote : Re: [Bug 440478] Re: karmic beta1: Sun Java plugin does not load

no, just the Sun one

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Micah Gersten <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> @ Jakob Lund
>
> This worked for me after I removed the icedtea plugin. Do you have both
> the Sun and open source version installed?
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
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> karmic beta1: Sun Java plugin does not load
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/440478
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> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
>
> I installed sun-java6-jdk and sun-java6-plugin. Firefox doesn't load the
> plugin, but shows a light-gray square where the applet should be.
>
> I tried to:
> * rename my ~/.mozilla/firefox directory, so Firefox would use default
> settings
> * Change the plugin via the "manage content plugins" menu option
> * create a symlink to
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so in my
> ~/.mozilla/plugins directory
>
> Neither worked.
>
> Perhaps related: I had some weird problem with installing sun-java6-sdk
> after updating my machine to karmic (alpha 5 ath the time) from jaunty; I
> had to manually uninstall the sun-java6-plugin package and THEN run "apt-get
> autoremove" before apt-get could work out the dependencies to install the
> -jdk package.
>
> Any idea how to fix / debug this?
>