That is due to licensing incompatibilities. Most (if not all?) distros do not come packaged with Sun JRE. -jmz On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: >  I Know , but that is what come with Fedora. I have sun's java installed as > well, but out of the box it wants to use the openjdk stuff. > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> >>  with IcedTea and OpenJDK youre generally off the beaten path. >> prepare to do some bushwacking.  I would be interested to know if >> anyone had any major successes with it. >> >>  -jmz >> >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Shawn Badger >> wrote: >> > I am having problems getting IcedTea to work. I think they are directly >> > related to the error I get in with javaws not running. Here is my error >> > with >> > javaws: >> > >> > [shawnba@lkppr90l ~]$ >> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/javaws >> > netx: No base directory (contains cache and other data) >> > [shawnba@lkppr90l ~]$ >> > >> > >> > I see this error no matter what options I pass and Google hasn't >> > returned >> > anything usefull this time. >> > >> > IcedTea just tells me to try and save the file localy and then run it. >> > >> > Has anyone else seen this issue? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss