I am fan of Debian GNU/Linux wheezy and I am using three different browser’s (Iceweasel, Firefox, Chrome) for various reasons. If you want to enable Java plugin for all those three browsers, then there is a single action that can do the work for you.
First of all you have to install a JRE, in order to have a VM environment for your browser. This could be provided by SUN (now Oracle) JRE 6 or 7 , or OpendJDK 6 or 7. If you have installed any of these, then you have to locate the location of the required library (for Oracle JRE is the “libnpjp2.so” file) and create a symbolic link to this.
Just follow these steps:
1) Create “plugins” directory for Mozilla:
$> mkdir /home/myuser/.mozilla/plugins
2) Create library symbolic link:
$> ln -s /opt/myjdks/jdk/jdk1.6.0_26/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /home/myuser/.mozilla/plugins/
As you can see I use Oracle JDK 6 (1.6.0_26), which I have downloaded from Oracle and just extracted to directory “/opt/myjdks/”.
You can do it with one command, but I split them to two separate commands to be more readable.
If you have installed Firefox as me (downloaded from Mozilla and just extracted somewhere and using a different profile in order to use Firefox and Iceweasel concurrently), then this Firefox will use this plugin too.
UPDATE: 16/2/2014
It is very easy to install Java plugin in your browser, using package icedtea-7-plugin.
In a Debian like system, just run this as root:
$> apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin
This will install web browser plugin based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea.
Regards,
Adrianos Dadis.
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Java, Integration and the virtues of source 
Thanks man, this helped me solve another problem 😀
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Incredible !!!…..After so many “cliks”….a solution from Greece !!!….I had to converte the .tar.gz pack with the “alien” tool (into the Synaptic) and after i made exactly your post. Thanks…
Afraid it fails on my system, Debian Wheezy 64n bit with “real” Firefox
Wheezy in original browser (Iceweasel 17.09)
First i sent /home/usr/.mozilla/plugins/libnpjp2.so to the trash.(Im not sure if necessary)
Then i download jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz [from Java page of course :)]….
So i made a java file in this way: #mkdir /usr/java
I moved the jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz like this: #mv /usr/Downloads/jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/java
Into the java file (cd /usr/java) i made this way:#tar zxvf jre-7u45-linux-x64.tar.gz
To finish this command: # ln -s /usr/lib64/jvm/jre1.7.0_45/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /home/usr/.mozilla/plugins
Close the Iceweasel and when open again you can make java test…
See you…
not working with Debian 64bit and Firefox. Nor on Chrome
I have not tested on 64bit yet 😦
Works well on Debian Wheezy 64bits and Iceweasel 24.3.0
Thanks a lot !
Whatever happened to being able to install the Java plugin using aptitude? More and more it seems like it’s time to switch back to Windows.
Going back to Windows is like you are fan of NSA.
We must get rid from whatever is closed source in our daily (and night) life.
Think twice when you compare closed source to FOSS…
Now on your question.
It is very easy to install Java plugin in your browser.
In a Debian like system, just run this as root:
$> apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin
This will install web browser plugin based on OpenJDK 7 and IcedTea.
Thank you, Adrianos.
You are a star.
I am running Debian Wheezy KDE 64bit and my web browsers are Iceweasel and Konqueror.
I did:
# apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin
and now I can watch films on BBC iplayer.
Cheers
The article summary is not actual for latest Chrome/Chromium version – https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=375909
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Thanks a lot for sharing this information. Helped me to enable the Java Plugin. Thanks again.