How to get icedtea7-plugin?

Question

On Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric), I installed openjdk-7-jre openjdk-7-jdk but could not find icedtea7-plugin. How to get the plugin?

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_147-icedtea"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea7 2.0) (7~b147-2.0-0ubuntu0.11.10.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

Solution 1

sudo apt-get install icedtea-web is the correct command.

Solution 2

Install icedtea6-plugin

sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

For more help

its 6 with java 7

Solution 3

Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

Comments

[Marco FX]

I tried the command and was told that I have installed the latest version. But: $ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for -javaplugin.so. update-java-alternatives: plugin alternative does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugi‌​n.so I could not find in the Ubuntu repositories icedtea7-plugin package, only the icedtea6-plugin.

[Bruno Pereira]

If you open firefox and type about:plugins on the address bar icedtea is not listed as the java plugin?

[Marco FX]

Yes, it is listed. Visually it seems that the java plugin running but in version 6. I wish use the version icedtea7. In the Oracle Web site test says I have java 6.23. What to do?

[Bruno Pereira]

I only have openjdk7 installed and the oracle site tells me the same, I would say do not worry about it.

[Bruno Pereira]

your java -version tells your that you are using the version you want, icedtea is running fine, only oracle is reporting it wrong I would say.

[Marco FX]

Thanks. In another test the same information appeared in the browser. I just hope that the browser is actually using the correct version of openjdk7. I think it is helpful to better performance and access to Internet banking.

[rumpel]

I have only openjdk7 installed and when trying to install icedtea-plugin, apt is installing the whole openjdk-6-jre. So that’s unfortunately not the solution!

[Natim]

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

[Mubbasher Khaliq]

This command has changed over time, however One Zero's answer will always install correctly, and is a more visual method, which I think is best for the audience of this site.

[Bruno Pereira]

You know, it would have taken you less time to fix this answer than the time it took to comment and down-vote.

[Bruno Pereira]

@Greq There, fixed. No more issues with the command for a very long time. Also I do not like it because it is command line and this site values more graphical answers is simply bs. No offense.

[ASten]

This solves my problem. It was similar to topic starter's one, but I was to switch java alternatives and it had failed because of missing alternative for that icedtea plugin. Thanks!