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Re: [LUG] JRE suddenly missing

 

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:35:15 +0000
Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I occasionally run a program in my browser which checks the speed of
> downloads. It needs Java and has been working fine. Today I suddenly get
> the message that Java is not installed or not activated. I have not
> touched anything to do with Java since I installed Mint 10 last April.

http://lwn.net/Articles/472466/

> Looking at synaptic I find that sun-java-bin and sun-java6-jre are both
> marked as installed. Also sun-java6-plugin is installed. Now I don't
> know where to go next.
> 
> Should I re-install these or is there some way to get java running which
> has somehow gone wrong? Could it be a recent update which has caused
> this without me knowing?
 
Sun JAVA is no longer legally distributable - it has to be disabled.
Install openJDK instead but if it doesn't work, you'll have to deal
with Oracle yourself. Third parties are no longer allowed to help you.

-- 
Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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