From 27d1b74e6448f1a3a455e94b7f7dd307f86a0c48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Austein Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 22:14:36 +0000 Subject: Hack for JavaSE instead of OpenJDK --- README.md | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5367aee..94b5769 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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: - -* -* +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) -- cgit v1.2.3