I had to install the Oracle JDK to get Netbeans to launch (forgot about umake). Now that I have the official JVM, I want to remove each and every other JVM — all the OpenJDK stuff, including IcedTea, et. al. Can I have “one Java” to rule them all? Partly, it just makes sense, and, … Read more
I installed IcedTea Plugin on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using Firefox. I receive this error message: Problem initializing runtime environment. Changing the SecurityManager is not allowed. I am not very technical, so my 12-year old son will handle this. I need someone to help me in easy terms. this is the output: (The output contains links … Read more
This is a problem I’ve been facing for quite some time now : installing Java. I have installed the following packages using Synaptic icedtea-netx openjdk-7-jre A few others got installed along with it like icedtea-netx-common and a few others… But the thing is, the Java site still tells me that Java isn’t installed. I’m using … Read more
I have a IcedTea plugin for TopCoder Arena. I used it till a week back. But today when I am trying to launch the arena, it is showing this error Fatal: Initialization Error: Could not initialize application. This application has not been initialized, for more information, execute javaws from the command line. Anyone, please help … Read more
I used the Ubuntu (12.04) Software-Center to install IcedTea Web Control Panel and IcedTea Java Web Start to start a WebStart java-file with the ending jnlp. After this is done I tried to start a file from within firefox – I was able to select Open with IcedTea Java Web Start (default) from the pull … Read more
I want to uninstall java 7 and install the version 6 (as some of programs I would like to use are incompatible with 7). I tried : $ sudo apt-get remove openjdk-7-jre [sudo] password for USER: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may … Read more
I’m trying to install Matlab but I can’t open the download_agent installed from mathworks. It’s an jnlp file, but if I use open with -> IcedTea in nautilus nothing happens, and when I try javaws download_agent or javaws download_agent.jnlp I get the message /usr/bin/javaws: line 66: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java: No such file or directory When trying sudo … Read more
PhET simulations (java applets) crash in 14.04 (and in 14.10 [update]) after execution. Icedtea starts loading the app and gets to 100%. Then it crashes. I get an error message to use the console to clear my cache and retry. This doesn’t work. It just cashes again. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? This … Read more
This question already has answers here: How to make Firefox use the newest Java version, which is already installed? (4 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I want the java plugin to work in Firefox and so I want to be clear on something. It appears that the default JRE (OpenJDK) that one gets from doing … Read more
My chrome browser in ubuntu 12.04 uses iced6 plugin. Test http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp shows java6, but via update-alternatives I switched java/javac to using openjdk-java7 Answer You probably need to manually update a symlink in: /opt/google/chrome/plugins/ AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : karolszk , Answer Author : Gregor
