How To Install icedtea-netx on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-netx
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is icedtea-netx
icedtea-netx is:
NetX provides a drop-in replacement for javaws (Java Web Start). Since upstream NetX is dead, the IcedTea Web project is hosting a fork of the original code. However, as icedtea-web has evolved to complex set of tools, extensions and tests, it has now only a few lines of code shared with the original implementation.
IcedTea’s NetX currently supports verification of signed jars, trusted certificate storing, system certificate store checking, and provides the services specified by the JNLP API.
There are three methods to install icedtea-netx
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install icedtea-netx Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icedtea-netx
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icedtea-netx
Install icedtea-netx Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icedtea-netx
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icedtea-netx
Install icedtea-netx Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install icedtea-netx
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icedtea-netx
How To Uninstall icedtea-netx on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the icedtea-netx
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icedtea-netx
Uninstall icedtea-netx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icedtea-netx
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icedtea-netx
Remove icedtea-netx Configurations and Data
To remove icedtea-netx
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icedtea-netx
Remove icedtea-netx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icedtea-netx
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icedtea-netx
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icedtea-netx
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.