Tag: wheezy

How to use Oracle Java 8 plugin in Iceweasel on Debian wheezy

Download the JRE from Oracle website.

Then perform the following steps (adjust the tar.gz filename according to what you downloaded, and replace “jre1.8.0_40” with the directory of your extracted tar.gz):

cd /opt
sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/jre-8u40-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo chown -R root.root jre1.8.0_40
sudo ln -s jre1.8.0_40 jre
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so mozilla-javaplugin.so /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so 1000
sudo update-alternatives --set mozilla-javaplugin.so /opt/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so

Minimal Debian VM upgraded to wheezy / Jenkins with OpenJDK 7

I have upgraded my minimal Debian VM to current Debian stable (“wheezy”). It comes in OVA format which is deployable to Virtualbox or VMware.

The Debian system JDK, i.e. the location of java, javac, etc. commands in the PATH, is still OpenJDK 6 because that is the default-jdk on wheezy and the Jenkins deb packages from jenkins-ci.org depend on it. In particular this means that the Tomcat / Jenkins process itself is executed by OpenJDK 6.

But my Jenkins installer now also installs OpenJDK 7 and pre-configures it as the default JDK for Jenkins jobs. That means you can now use this Jenkins instance to build your Java 7 projects, as well as older Java projects.

Please follow the step-by-step installation instructions if you want to use the VM. It consists completely of Free / Open Source software. I provide it for download “as is” without any warranty of any kind.