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java virtual machine is installed but does not work

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I install java virtual machine, and when i go to the site service-canada for income tax purposes, it tells me i don't have java.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#1

open Firefox and typing about:plugins in the address bar and check for java plugin , if not found .

Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2.

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Kristopher Ives (krisives) said : 		#2

If you execute this from a terminal (Accessories->Terminal):

$ java -version

My output was:

java version "1.6.0_10"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-b33)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b15, mixed mode)

I checked the about:plugins and it said I had "IcedTea Web Browser Plugin" installed. This was installed with the "icedtea6-plugin" package I believe.

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Best Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#3

Open a terminal and type in:

sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
or
sudo aptitude install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin

this will install the plugin :)

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le red (marcdemontigny) said : 		#4

Thanks Hemanth, that solved my question.

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#5

My pleasure , enjoy Ubuntu :)

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM, le red <<email address hidden>
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> Question #57415 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
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> Thanks Hemanth, that solved my question.
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linux_bee (sinbu2000) said : 		#6

Hi,
I am experiencing the same problem eventhough "sun java jre" and "sun java plugin" softwares are already installed in ubuntu.
I checked that java is enabled within Firefox alse it is shown as installed in the plugins section.
Could you please help me if you can ?
Thanks.

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linux_bee (sinbu2000) said : 		#7

I closed and reopened the Firefox and the java plugin started working.
I have no idea why the above error occured.
I must have something to do with Canada government webpages.