Java: starting a JNLP file?

[Antonio Olivares]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:09 AM Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
>
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a Supermicro server with IPMI interface. To view the server
> > > console, I need Java. When I click on "Launch Console" in the IPMI web
> > > interface, Firefox downloads a "launch.jnlp" file.
> > >
> > > What should I install from ports/packages, and what should I configure
> > > in Firefox, so that I can view the server console?
> > >
> > > I have java/openjdk8-jre installed, but /usr/local/bin/java does not
> > > seem to know how to handle a .jnlp file.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> > > 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
> >
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > You would need to install icedtea-web from ports/pkgs and it should
> > work.
>
> Thank you for the hint.
>
> icedtea starts, I walk through several security warnings and finally get the
> message "Error: no iKVM64 in java.library.path". Do you think there is anything
> to be done about it?
>
>
> --
> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
> 2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

Dear Sir,

For that error message apparently java from Oracle is needed.  As you
can verify here:

http://navit.pw/r/CodingHelp/post/d2td3z

I hope you can get a better solution that you can use openjdk, but I
do not know if it can get it to work.

Best Regards,


Antonio