Anybody got Sun's Java running on F8rc3?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 5 19:50:55 UTC 2007


Knute Johnson wrote:

> I'm not sure here what is different from icedtea.  The above is what 
> showed up when I reinstalled everything.  Is there another plugin?  
> How would I get that instead of this one?

You have to get it from the Sun site. It is not Iced Tea since the web 
plugin is based on GCJ code.

> Non-free bits or not, Sun's Java and the plugin worked just fine on 
> F7 and all the previous versions.

Doesn't change the fact that Fedora won't ship that non-free code and 
the GCJ plugin worked on everything I tried it out on.

Rahul




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