IcedTea is build environment for OpenJDK. It also adds functionality to OpenJDK, including a powerful web plugin.

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How do I update the IcedTea Plugin on 12.10?

Whenever I open up the page http://www.runescape.com/game.ws? in google chrome I get the notice, "IcedTea was blocked because it is out of date" and gives me the two options of updating it or running ...
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Google Chrome says IcedTea is out of date

IcedTea for Google Chrome won't work. What happens is this - when I visit the Java test page http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp, Chrome throws this: When I click Update plug-in..., it ...
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Replacing the OpenJDK with the Oracle JDK

I've had the archive file for Oracle's JDK for some time and have been running java applications through ~/Downloads/jdk1.7.0/bin/java -jar <jarfile> for some time, but I'm wondering if there's ...
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Compiling IcedTea: JDK home directory could not be found

Google Chrome keeps telling me that I need to update icedtea, I tried installing them from terminal, didn't work so I'm installing icedtea and icedtea-web from source, when I do ./configure it tells ...
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How to remove openjdk-7?

I want to uninstall java 7 and install the version 6 (as some of programs I would like to use are incompatible with 7). I tried : $ sudo apt-get remove openjdk-7-jre [sudo] password for USER: ...
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Iced tea-2.3.4 installation script fails on executing

I downloaded icedtea-2.3.4 tar ball and extracted it on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop system. While running install-sh (permission allowed to be executable) and clicking on Run in terminal gives ...
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how to enable in chrome icedtea7 java plugin instead of icedtea6?

My chrome browser in ubuntu 12.04 uses iced6 plugin. Test http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp shows java6, but via update-alternatives I switched java/javac to using openjdk-java7
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icedtea-plugin not working in chromium

The icedtea plugin is working in firefox, but not in Chromium. Chromium shows in about:plugins IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.2 (1.2-2ubuntu1.1)) The IcedTea-Web Plugin executes Java ...
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OpenJDK not working in Ubuntu 12.10 on Firefox

This is a problem I've been facing for quite some time now : installing Java. I have installed the following packages using Synaptic icedtea-netx openjdk-7-jre A few others got installed along ...
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javaws is installed and it is not installed - what is going on?

I used the Ubuntu (12.04) Software-Center to install IcedTea Web Control Panel and IcedTea Java Web Start to start a WebStart java-file with the ending jnlp. After this is done I tried to start a file ...
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how to show java-openjdk7 console during applet startup in chrome/firefox?

I've just installed java-openjdk-7 and in IcedTea Control Panel enable Debugging/Java Console/Show but it won't help.
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icedtea-7-plugin non-functional in Ubuntu 13.04

I installed(sudo apt-get install) icedtea-7-plugin (and all its dependencies) and have closed firefox and reopened it; and the plugin still does not appear in http//about:plugins Is there a fix for ...
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How to run topcoder arena applet using proxy in Ubuntu 12.10?

I was trying to run topcoder arena applet using proxy. I install latest JDK and iced-tea. When I try to run using: javaws ContestAppletProd.jnlp I'm getting: File cannot be launched because ...
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can't launch iced tea web control panel [closed]

can't launch iced teaweb control panel. Get error message failed to execute child process /usr/bin/ it web-settings (no such file or directory). I have ubuntu 11:04
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How do i install the latest version of IcedTea 2.3.1 on 12.04?

i've recently read that IcedTea 2.3.1 patched up the recent Java zero-day vulnerabilities and i was wondering how to install it in Ubuntu 12.04, and please keep it simple.
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Java icetea plugin not working

I installed Java IcedTea plugin 6 on Ubuntu 11.10. It doesnt work in Chrome, and it continues to crash in Firefox , 100% of the time. I tried re-installing and updating but nothing seems to work. How ...
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IcedTea java was blocked because it is out of date [closed]

IcedTea is not working and whenever I click "update" it just takes me to a wiki page about IcedTea. I am new to ubuntu and Linux in general so this is very frustrating for me. I need to get this fixed ...