Javaws and/or icedtea package not available

I can’t find an icedtea package for Fedora 36. Are there any viable alternatives for running javaws? Many of the management modules in our servers still run java and we need a way of loggin onto them.

Many Thanks

I don’t know if icedtea is still a thing, since modern browsers don’t allow to launch Java stuff.
In any case, icedtea-web has not been packaged for Fedora Linux 36 Overview - rpms/icedtea-web - src.fedoraproject.org

Talking about javaws, you could install Oracle Java: Installing Java :: Fedora Docs (they provide also RPM packages). At least until Java 8, javaws is available.

I’m in the same boat; just switched over from Debian, and I’m loving Fedora! Unfortunately there is some remote support software we run at my company (ScreenConnect) that relies upon .jnlp files for the interface.

@alciregi is correct: the icedtea-web package has no maintainer and has been removed from the repo because it hasn’t been maintained for over 6 weeks. Thinking I might help, I went to grab the icedtea-web source and found that the project itself is on life support!

I then went to the non-free dark side, and found that JDK 19 doesn’t contain javaws, and that both JDK 17 and JDK 8 appear uninstallable in Fedora:

[tfry@fedora Downloads]$ sudo dnf install ./jdk-8u341-linux-x64.rpm 
[sudo] password for tfry: 
Last metadata expiration check: 3:09:50 ago on Fri 14 Oct 2022 05:12:12 PM PDT.
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides /bin/basename needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/cp needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/ls needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/mkdir needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/mv needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/pwd needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/sort needed by jdk1.8-2000:1.8.0_341-fcs.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
[tfry@fedora Downloads]$ sudo dnf install ./jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.rpm 
Last metadata expiration check: 3:14:21 ago on Fri 14 Oct 2022 05:12:12 PM PDT.
Error: 
 Problem: conflicting requests
  - nothing provides /bin/basename needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/cp needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/ls needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/mkdir needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/mv needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/pwd needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
  - nothing provides /bin/sort needed by jdk-17-2000:17.0.4.1-ga.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

I’m curious if anyone knows of any alternatives to IcedTea or Java to execute Java WebStart… Thanks in advance!! :slight_smile: