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@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ Something along the lines of the `run.sh` formulation might work well as the command portion of a tunneling `ssh -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900` command. This version is based on Ubuntu rather than Debian, because I was -trying to get the icedtea-web Java Plugin stuff to work. Still fails, -too many things know that no browser supports this crap anymore. +trying to get the icedtea-web Java Plugin stuff to work. Didn't work, +but then I tried a recipe for getting Java SE instead of OpenJDK, and +that does seem to work. Might work equally well on Debian. -In theory, we might be able to get somewhere by building icedtea -ourselves, or using an old packaged version. See: - -* <https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/icedtea-web> -* <https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/icedtea-web> +Sadly, this approach requires one to download JRE directly from +Oracle, get an account, and check through a license agreement, so I +can't just give it away, you'll have to download the JRE yourself. +[Kate's reference on installing Java](https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Oracle-Java-on-Ubuntu-Linux) |