Icedtea-plugin (For Vstar)

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Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Thu, 08/06/2020 - 06:03

Greetings,

So I just recently 'moved' to Ubuntu (Ver. 20.04 literally new to the environment haha) so the OpenJDK Apparently, I got lost on how to install the iced-tea to 'run' the Vstar (Since it may be because the javaws application isn't included)

Edit 1: When I tried to do it on terminal it says: Unable to locate package icedtea-plugin

Edit 2: Using the debian ones, it says The following packages have unmet dependencies

Could someone help me out?

Best regards,

CGHA

Affiliation
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)
Oracle JAVA

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop and like you I down load and installed open Open JDK however I never used it as one cand install Oracle Java for linux and it works well.  Unfortunately Oracle is not updated Java for Linux machine so I do have an older version, Just as long as AAVOS does not update their JAVA programs I am pretty safe.  I would be pretty interested in hearing the answer to your question.

Here is the location to the directions for installing all flavors of JAVA to ubuntu.

https://itsfoss.com/install-java-ubuntu/

Cheers

Bob

 

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Oracle Java

Seems interesting. I may try Oracle and see what I can do to fix this. I still have the .jnlp file and hoping this will work out this time ^ 

Truly yours,

CGHA

Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
With regards to Java

So I managed to pretty much install the required OpenJDK (14 version) and the Oracle one (14 version) including the Icedtea...However, when I'm trying to add the "icedtea-plugin", it says "Unable to locate package icedtea-plugin"...Even without the Icedtea...it still can't be opened. :/ 

Any ways to resolve this issue? I'm getting there but there's something might be missing...

Truly yours,

CGHA

 

Installing VStar A No-Go

Here is what I get with the above post...

openjdk version "14.0.2" 2020-07-14
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 14.0.2+12-Ubuntu-120.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0.2+12-Ubuntu-120.04, mixed mode, sharing)

I can't find any help on how to install VStar on my Ubuntu 20.04 distro either,

Any help or advice would be most appreciated!

Thank You in Advance!

John