64bit Sun Java Plugin Package

Rich43 · 13 Nov 2007 at 20:30

Anyone know where I can find a deb for Ubuntu 7.10 x64 Sun Java Plugin? I prefer a deb to a manual install.

Cant find anything in Synaptic.

Cake · 21 Nov 2007 at 11:05

JRE isn't open source and even though it's free it comes with a license, so you won't find any .debs or .rpms for it. Manual install is the only way, I'm afraid.

Hades · 21 Nov 2007 at 18:02

Cake said:
JRE isn't open source and even though it's free it comes with a license, so you won't find any .debs or .rpms for it. Manual install is the only way, I'm afraid.

It is now...
http://www.java.net/community/openjdk

You can download 64bit versions for Linux there...
http://download.java.net/jdk6/binaries/

fumbles · 22 Nov 2007 at 04:42

Rich43 said:
Anyone know where I can find a deb for Ubuntu 7.10 x64 Sun Java Plugin? I prefer a deb to a manual install.

Cake said:
JRE isn't open source and even though it's free it comes with a license, so you won't find any .debs or .rpms for it. Manual install is the only way, I'm afraid.

Sun produces binary files and rpms for all versions of Java it produces.

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/?intcmp=1281

Cake · 29 Nov 2007 at 13:11

Sorry, my bad. So they provide RPMs, but no DEBs. Poor *buntu users.

However, to answer Rich's question, there's no 64-bit browser plugin for Java yet (as is the case for the Flash plugin). If your browser is 64-bit you can install the 32-bit plugin and use it with nspluginwrapper or you can install a 32-bit browser and the 32-bit plugin (this is the setup I have at the moment on Fedora 7)