I’ve been struggling with lava support for Firefox after upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. All I had to do was to remove the package called icedtea-gcjwebplugin. Now, I don’t know my way around Java anymore, but at least it did the trick. Worth a shot if you have problems.
Update:
John has some more information on this issue if the above didn’t do the trick:
I also needed to link to the new plugin….
cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins$
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
Thanks John!
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#1 by Rob Juurlink - May 1st, 2008 at 21:24
IcedTea is deprecated in Ubuntu 8.04, it is replaced by openjdk6.
#2 by Ivar N - May 21st, 2008 at 22:10
It certainly solved my problem. Thank you for good advice!
#3 by Adam R - June 3rd, 2008 at 01:08
I installed Java-6, didnt work. I tried all kinds of linking… etc. I just chucked all the openJDK stuff from synaptic and let mozilla install java-5 and it worked. AND THEN I FOUND THIS BLOG!!!!! Hahahaaaa, life is cruel.
Good call, Eirik
#4 by Steve - June 18th, 2008 at 06:13
Kicked Butt. This did the trick. Thank you!!
#5 by Sigurd Fyllingses - June 18th, 2008 at 09:45
Nice, Tanks!!
#6 by john wylie - June 19th, 2008 at 17:13
Eirik – cheers – that was a perfect fix. I also needed to link to the new plugin….
cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins$
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
#7 by admin - June 23rd, 2008 at 11:57
I’m just happy to share the word!
John: I added your additional information to my original post. Thanks!
#8 by Paul - July 17th, 2008 at 19:21
Can’t believe that this big of a problem wouldn’t be involved with a fix from Ubuntu directly!!
Thanks though, saved my whole dept trying to access timesheets, lol.
#9 by Moneesh - July 19th, 2008 at 07:14
Thank you so much, resolved my problem. Thanks again.
#10 by Kyle Mathews - August 24th, 2008 at 18:21
Thanks again from another random googler. I’ve been without a java plugin for awhile
#11 by Arto Jarvinen - August 25th, 2008 at 14:19
Thanks! I’ve been struggling with getting Java to work with Firefox 3 and Ubuntu 8.04 and this did the trick! Sometimes it’s better to leave (OSS) ideology aside and use what works.
Arto
#12 by admin - August 26th, 2008 at 09:23
Just glad to help. Spread the word
#13 by Darkcloud72 - September 4th, 2008 at 22:53
Your a genius! Ive been trying for over a week to solve this. Works like a charm
#14 by Clemens - September 7th, 2008 at 05:27
I kinda suspected this to work as I found that Firefox kept using that bloody icedtea-plugin despite me having deactivated it…
Thanks.
#15 by David - September 14th, 2008 at 23:11
I started using Ubuntu (and linux) yesterday, so I am really, really new.
How do I uninstall the mentioned package?
Thanks for your help.
#16 by Jorge Z - October 2nd, 2008 at 03:33
Outstanding, thank you.
#17 by Tom - October 29th, 2008 at 23:55
David search for it under System – Administration – synaptic package manager
if you need java look here http://openjdk.java.net/install/
thx for the info Eirik : )
#18 by Marina - October 31st, 2008 at 21:00
Go into System –> Administration –> Synaptic Package Manager, click that.
Opens up dialog box (may ask for your password again first), this is your package manager.
Hit “Search”, enter “java”, hit enter key.
Scroll down til you see the package that needs removing, if its check box is green, click on that, select “Mark for complete removal”. If it is not already highlighted you do not have that package installed.
#19 by Ops - November 5th, 2008 at 16:07
Java in 8.04 is completely broke, they deprecated all the plugins and IcedTea doesn’t work at all. Java5 no longer avail, Java6 plugin disabled. I’m pretty sure it only works if you upgrade from an older Ubuntu, the plugin files above are no longer available. That should learn me to not use an ‘unstable’ OS on a production machine.
#20 by admin - November 12th, 2008 at 10:43
Seems like this is broken again after upgrading to 8.10. I’ve yet to find a solution for it, but people suggest downgrading from Java 1.6 to 1.5.
I’ll do some tests later today and see if I can figure out a working hack.
#21 by Lee - November 13th, 2008 at 17:49
worked for me if you point to mozilla, I think this changes with hardy as I has similar issue with flash plugin.
lee@lee-desktop:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
#22 by Cleagehaula - December 20th, 2008 at 05:50
Hello! simply super resource
#23 by DareDevil - December 27th, 2008 at 15:14
thanks….it works like a charm….
#24 by ralph - January 19th, 2009 at 21:57
http://openjdk.java.net/install/
#25 by Mathew Boorman - February 10th, 2009 at 04:43
Instead of putting in links, you can just install the package sun-java6-plugin (or version 5 one)
#26 by Leah - June 17th, 2009 at 15:36
I am having issues with java and ubuntu/linux operating system. Java is installed and it is version 6 and not sure of the rest, but I think it is the .0.7 one although it might be 13. I have tried everything there is to try to get it to work correclty and it won’t. I have tried everything in the forums and still not working right. I have even uninstalled and reinstalled it to no avail. It acts like it wants to run, but won’t start the game. It will run the advertisement in the game window, but not the actual game. Someone please help!!!!
#27 by gregor - March 25th, 2010 at 19:58
Your solution didn’t quite worked out. I got the final solution here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ubuntuzilla/index.php?title=Main_Page#Java_plugin_not_showing_up_.28on_Ubuntu_Karmic.29
#28 by shammi - March 30th, 2010 at 06:28
i am having issues with java in ubuntu OS. i have installed the java 6.0 in ubuntu but at time of using java in firefox one error is coming “java applet required ” can anyone resolve my issue..
#29 by shammi - March 30th, 2010 at 06:29
#30 by shammi - March 30th, 2010 at 06:29
i am having issues with java in ubuntu OS. i have installed the java 6.0 in ubuntu but at time of using java in firefox one error is coming “java applet required ” can anyone resolve my issue..