Installing Java plugin for Chrome in Ubuntu

Question

I do have JDK, everything works fine in Ubuntu, I mean IDE, some apps, I'm able to develop and run projects, but I got a message in Chrome: Java(TM) is required to display this content

I need to run this applet. How do I do that? I need to run it in Chrome because of the GWT plugin installed here. Should I add some parameters in a script, that would run it? Or is there another way? I saw links that proposed to install Java plugin for Chrome in Windows and Mac, but not Linux. Thanks in addvance.

I made a link to /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/libnpt.so in /opt/google/chrome/plugins, it didn't help (well, it's not libnpjp2.so, which is recommended for this case, but it's the closest one I saw there).

Update: I found libnpjp2.so on my machine, the following command helped: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_03/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

Answer 1

Current Chrome version do not requires more this option.

To install java plugin for browsers, if you're using packaged java, install one of the following packages according you java version:

sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

or

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

To check you version, open a terminal (command line) and type:

java -version

Java 1.6 will require icedtea6-plugin, Java 1.7 icedtea-7-plugin.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu 13.04 x64 ,

sudo apt-get install icedtea-7-plugin

is working great. Thank you.