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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:35:15 +0000 Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I occasionally run a program in my browser which checks the speed of > downloads. It needs Java and has been working fine. Today I suddenly get > the message that Java is not installed or not activated. I have not > touched anything to do with Java since I installed Mint 10 last April. http://lwn.net/Articles/472466/ > Looking at synaptic I find that sun-java-bin and sun-java6-jre are both > marked as installed. Also sun-java6-plugin is installed. Now I don't > know where to go next. > > Should I re-install these or is there some way to get java running which > has somehow gone wrong? Could it be a recent update which has caused > this without me knowing? Sun JAVA is no longer legally distributable - it has to be disabled. Install openJDK instead but if it doesn't work, you'll have to deal with Oracle yourself. Third parties are no longer allowed to help you. -- Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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