-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:43:13PM +0000, Camale?n wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:16:24 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >> >>> In my box the command "update-alternatives --config java" returns the >>> following: >>> >>> There are 3 alternatives which provide `java'. >>> >>> Selection Alternative >>> - ----------------------------------------------- >>> 1 /usr/bin/gij-4.3 >>> *+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java >>> 3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java > > I think the main issue is with the libraries and how complete classpath > is compared to the sun one. I believe (last time I looked), that a > majority of the standard java library from sun has been opensourced, but > some small part hasn't. > > gij + gcj should produce runnable code from java source, you will see a > lot of deb java package with -gcj helper packages - eclipse and > openoffice. > > I have been stung by a few quirky instances where gij/gcj hasn't worked, > so I stick with the sun implementations. > > your milage may vary
On Camaleón's advice in alternatives I changed my default java to the sun-java6-jre version. In your post you also indicated that that version is the best one to use. I have consequently purged the packages - -- including the chains of packages on which they depended thereby orphaned -- which provided the other two. According to your post I should not really have any trouble for having done so, Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksC+nEACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeKbQCeMInjOm75Hg9Z2Ck4EWceukZu cV4An2f95u5z6DP68tovPqJwvvGU5fvC =Relp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
