On 21/10/12 20:25, Colin Law wrote: > On 21 October 2012 18:20, Tony Arnold <tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: >> Colin, >> >> On 21/10/12 16:44, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 21 October 2012 16:42, Tony Arnold <tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> Colin, >>>> >>>> >>>> You probably need the plugin. Install icedtea-plugin, which is the one >>>> that is part of openjdk. >>> >>> icedtea-6-plugin in fact. >> >> Both will work. icedtea-plugin depends on icedtea-6-plugin. I presume >> when Java 7 becomes the default icedtea-plugin will eventually depend on >> icedtea-7-plugin! > > I see. I had not noticed that there is a generic icedtea-plugin. > Perhaps I should remove the version 6 and install the generic. > .... > However having looked further I see that on 12.10 this will actually > pull in version 7 so I think I need to check how I installed java in > the first place.
If you want to keep with the recommended versions of Java for your particular release then I would install default-jre and icedtea-plugin and let the dependencies take care of it all. You could install icedtea-plugin now without removing icedtea-6-plugin. It won't do any harm. if you want to keep to a version 6 of Java when you upgrade to 12.10, then stick with openjdk-6-jre and icedtea-6-plugin. There have been some fairly serious security problems with Sun's versions of Java. I've no idea how openjdk compares. Anyone know? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/