On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Jim <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fedora 18 ,is there openJRE instead of Oracles JRE ?
What Packages would I download ?
LONG ANSWER:
OpenJDK7 is the reference implementation of JDK7
Hence, Oracle programmers work on OpenJDK 7 (and 8, and 9...).
The web browser plug-in was one of the few parts not open sourced by Sun in 2006.
That is provided as open source as part of the Icedtea-web package.
More information:
https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_the
http://www.redhat.com/summit/2012/pdf/2012-DevDay-OpenJDK-Bhole.pdf
SHORT ANSWER
do the following:
su
yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk
yum install icedtea-web*
That will get you OpenJDK 7 with the web browser plug-in (Icedtea-web) and Java Webstart Launcher.
FC
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