Unable to find IcedTea-web for Rocky 9

Rocky Linux General
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Hello,

i can’t find icetea-web for rocky linux 9 and i need it. Can you advise me?

Best Regards,
Joro

P.S. Please excuse me if this is off topic for this section!

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RHEL 8 has icedtea-web 1.8.8. Recent Fedora has icedtea-web 2.0.
A logical thing to try is to get source RPM from Fedora and rebuild with ‘mock’ for Rocky 9.

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Is there any reference from RedHat that it ever existed in RHEL8 or that they removed it in RHEL9?

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Not easy to find, at least. The IcedTea - Wikipedia reveals that removal of Java Web Start after JDK 9 is a likely influencer.

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Yes, that’s why I was asking. They are supposed to list packages that have been removed in the release notes, but I don’t remember seeing this one.

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Red Hat explains here Alternatives for Java Web Start deprecation on OpenJDK 9 / OpenJDK 11 - Red Hat Customer Portal, the reason why icedtea-web is not present on RHEL 9.

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Even this is an old thread: Users of Rocky Linux 9 will be able to install IcedTea-Web using EPEL 9 very soon using dnf install --enablerepo=epel-testing icedtea-web – and thank you very much for taking this package re-review, @neil!

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