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Description of problem: Unresolved deps installing java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin and therefore cannot install and run the latest version of java-1.6.0-openjdk Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1) Install new RHEL 6.0 Workstation on x86_64 2) Register with RHN 3) Enable extra channels: a) Fastrack b) Optional c) Supplementary 4) yum update 5) yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin -- crash and burn :-/ [root@localhost ~]# yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin.x86_64 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 for package: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6) Requires: java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 Installed: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (@rhel-x86_64-workstation-6) java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0 Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6) java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.21.b17.el6 Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.31.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6) java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.31.b17.el6_0 Available: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-workstation-6) java-1.6.0-openjdk = 1:1.6.0.0-1.36.b17.el6_0 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
FWIW, without the openjdk-plugin you can't run Elluminate. I tried the Sun plugin, but it wouldn't work. Haven't tried IBM.
From the changelog of the publicly available java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.39.b17.el6_0.src.rpm: * Thu Feb 10 2011 Jiri Vanek <jvanek@re…> - 1.6.0.0-1.36.b17 - removed plugin. How it comes in?! - Resolves: rhbz#676295 (with the quoted BZ being hidden from public view, so I can't tell you more about it).
The plugin was removed after the .21 release and never re-added. Builds .32 to .35 were internal only (i.e. the build where the plugin mistakenly appeared again was never been public/on RHN).
What is the recommended way to run java web programs on RHEL? Am I chasing the wrong package here?
Assuming you mean webstart (javaws) or applets, in order to run those, you will have to install one of the proprietary JDKs from the supplementary channels (e.g. java-1.6.0-sun{,-plugin})
Any chance java-1.6.0-openjdk be updated to include the -plugin in RHEL6 soon? Or can anyone suggest a workaround as a temporary fix?
We are working on re-introducing the plugin into rhel via icedtea-web (a separate upstream project where the plugin exists). In the mean time as a workaround you can use the Oracle plugin which is available in the supplementary channel as java-1.6.-0-sun-plugin