Juniper network connect on Ubuntu 14.04 cannot find 32 bit Java

I have Ubuntu x64 and trying to install Juniper network connect.

Installed 64bit jre/jdk, icedtea and 32bit jre

 sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre:i386

command update-alternatives --config java shows that java-7-openjdk-i386 is intalled and selected

 Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------ 0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java 1071 auto mode 1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java 1071 manual mode
* 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/java 1070 manual mode

But when I'm trying to install network connect recieved following error:

"Setup failed. Please install 32 bit Java and update alternatives links using update-alternatives command. For more details, refer KB article KB25230 "

These steps worked fine on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 and I'm wondering why it doesn't work on 14.04

3 Answers

adding symlink to /usr/sbin/ helped.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/update-alternatives /usr/sbin/

solution from following article:How to install Juniper VPN on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

Thanks

Just to add another note to help anyone having problems...

The best thing you can do for debugging problems is to turn on the Java console in IcedTea by running itweb-settings - this will show all the errors in the juniper script.

In my case the script was running 'java -version' and grepping for 'Java version' but I was using openjdk which outputs 'openjdk version'. So I installed the Oracle jre 8 and created a symlink to the plugin in my .mozilla/plugins directory.

the juniper documents say to keep 64bit as a default

unfortuneatly the doco is behind their firewall (an account is free)