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John Doe
John Doe

Reputation: 9764

Installing Java plugin for Chrome in Ubuntu

I do have JDK, everything works fine in Ubuntu, I mean IDE, some apps, I'm able to develop and run projects, but I got a message in Chrome: Java(TM) is required to display this content

I need to run this applet. How do I do that? I need to run it in Chrome because of the GWT plugin installed here. Should I add some parameters in a script, that would run it? Or is there another way? I saw links that proposed to install Java plugin for Chrome in Windows and Mac, but not Linux. Thanks in addvance.

I made a link to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/libnpt.so in /opt/google/chrome/plugins, it didn't help (well, it's not libnpjp2.so, which is recommended for this case, but it's the closest one I saw there).

Update: I found libnpjp2.so on my machine, the following command helped: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_03/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

Upvotes: 17

Views: 72523

Answers (6)

MainActivity
MainActivity

Reputation: 1690

Still good for Opera 12.16 & Ubuntu 14.04, but need to install both Icedtea's to get applets work

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin icedtea-6-plugin

Upvotes: 0

safright
safright

Reputation: 127

there is no way to run java plugin since chrome stops support http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI plugins

Upvotes: 1

Osama Javed
Osama Javed

Reputation: 1442

From a previous question:

Yes, add --enable-plugins to your chrome command. It's currently not considered stable, but it works for me.

Actually, it seems to just work without that. Have you tried it? You can find a test applet here. Presumably you'll need Sun's Java installed.

UPDATE: see the link for further details. Lots of helpful answers.

Upvotes: 1

Rael Gugelmin Cunha
Rael Gugelmin Cunha

Reputation: 3542

Current Chrome version do not requires more this option.

To install java plugin for browsers, if you're using packaged java, install one of the following packages according you java version:

sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

or

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

To check you version, open a terminal (command line) and type:

java -version

Java 1.6 will require icedtea6-plugin, Java 1.7 icedtea-7-plugin.

Upvotes: 13

Pattom Rajesh
Pattom Rajesh

Reputation: 31

The best solution I found, (none of these suggestions worked for me), is as followings: First install Icedtead pluging by:

  1. sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Then in your chrome browser go to:

  1. chrome-> Settings-> Show Advanced Settings-> Privacy then click on Content Settings -> Plug-ins then click on Disable Individual Plug-in
  2. Disable both "IceTea-Web Plugin" and "Java(TM)"
  3. Restart the browser.
  4. chrome-> Settings-> Show Advanced Settings-> Privacy then click on Content Settings -> Plug-ins then click on Disable Individual Plug-in
  5. Enable only "IceTea-Web Plugin"
  6. Enjoy !

Upvotes: 3

mdalacu
mdalacu

Reputation: 181

On Ubuntu 13.04 x64 ,

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

is working great. Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

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