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bambitheslug

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Registered: 2012-07-10

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Can't Find IcedTea7 Java Plugin for Firefox

Hello everybody,

I'm new to Arch (have used Linux for some time but never got too deep into configurations and such). I've always just used proprietary versions of Java in the past, even on Linux, but now that I have a really cutomized Arch box, I'd like to try and support OpenJDK+IcedTea.

I followed the Wiki instructions by installing jre7-openjdk, jdk7-openjdk, and icedtea-web-java7 packages. All I want is to link to the plugin for firefox. However, I don't actually see the .so plugin file anywhere, nor do I know how to see where pacman installs things.

I have a folder /usr/share/icedtea-web/ that contains the files about.jar, about.jnlp, netx.jar, and plugin.jar.

I remember .jar files are Java archives, but I actually have no idea what to do with them or how to use them as I'm not too familiar with Java (but I do run browser applets using the plugin).

I apologize for my noobness in this, but can anybody help me figure out how to find or acquire or extract the .so plugin file for firefox?

Thanks,
Dave

Last edited by bambitheslug (2012-07-11 20:57:08)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Find IcedTea7 Java Plugin for Firefox

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … va7/files/
or
pacman -Ql icedtea-web-java7

iirc the browser should automatically detect the plugin when it starts

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bambitheslug

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Registered: 2012-07-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Find IcedTea7 Java Plugin for Firefox

Great, thank you so much! Actually, it was already fixed before I read your reply, but it's still informative (I wasn't sure how to find file lists for pacman packages).

I just removed and reinstalled all the java packages and it worked. I might have done it in the wrong order or something when I did it the first time. I wasn't sure if the web test on the Java website checked for the Oracle plugin specifically or just a valid JRE implementation, but it worked, so I guess OpenJDK is working great so far.

fsckd

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't Find IcedTea7 Java Plugin for Firefox

Congrats, don't forget to mark this as [solved].

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