[Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

Eike eike at eknet.org
Sun Feb 15 13:55:45 CET 2015


Hello Chad,


Chad Joan writes:

> In my first attempt, I tried to follow the wiki advice, including the "jre
> = true" suggestion, but with ignoring the suggestion to download Oracle JDK
> in advance.  Predictably, when I ran "nixos-rebuild switch", it failed and
> complained about needing Oracle JDK to be manually downloaded.

I think you can use "icedtea = true" instead of jre. This uses icedtea
variant of openjdk.

Regards,
Eike


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