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ubuntu-restricted-extras package

  1. Bug #231098
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 231098

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vinipl87 (vinipl87) wrote :

I disagree with this fix for amd64 - there is no sun-java6-plugin in repositories for this architecture.
Now those who run amd64 and upgrade ubuntu-restricted-extras have 2 JVMs installed as this package depends on both icedtea-gcjwebplugin (which depends on openjdk-6-jre) AND sun-java6-jre, at mininum a waste of space..
I solved this problem by forcing and locking the old version of ubuntu-restricted-extras.

With Ubuntu 8.04 OpenJDK always ran smoothly for me. I know it lacks some bits in media related APIs, the only Java application I run that require such things is FrostWire, and it works fine!
Are there other mainstream Java apps that fail with OpenJDK?