Your message dated Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:44:58 +0200
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#687393: /usr/bin/update-alternatives:
update-alternatives and java-plugin
has caused the Debian Bug report #687393,
regarding /usr/bin/update-alternatives: update-alternatives and java-plugin
to be marked as done.
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687393: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687393
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.8
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
Dear Maintainer,
-- What led to this? The big java bug and its fix
-- What did I do? Well:
Now, first some background: I am all for free software. Such as OpenJDK, and
IcedTeaPlugin and... However, my netbank disagrees. Maybe someday
Icedtea java plugin for iceweasel etc will be good enough but meanwhile
my netbank does insist on Oracle jre and matching plugin.
So I install the latest and greatest bugfix and try to use the gread Debian
update-alternatives like this:
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so"
"mozilla-javaplugin.so" "/usr/local/jre1.7.0_07/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so" 1
and all is well. Or is it?
Iceweasel tells me (about:plugins) no javaplugin.
I look at the works and:
ls -l /etc/alternatives/moz*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52 syys 12 12:20
/etc/alternatives/mozilla-javaplugin.so ->
/usr/local/jre1.7.0_07/lib/i386/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Well. Great. These days the *correct* plugin happens to be libnpjp2.so.
So I try next to "--force --install" but no luck. I still get
the *wrong* plugin.
-- How to fix this? I do not know. I did solve the problem, but:
Possibly I miss something obvious, and if I failed in my rtfm I do beg your
pardon. Still, so far the only way to get the correct plugin seems to be to
ignore the update-alternatives completely and to do a manual "ln -s" - link.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5
ii tar 1.26-4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.8.15.10
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 17:02:58 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> My guess would be that there's another alternative with a higher
> priority which takes precedence, you can check that with:
> If that's the case then there's no bug here and this report can be
> closed.
As confirmed off-bts that was it. So closing now.
thanks,
guillem
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