-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 14:33 -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >> On Camale�n'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 > > You might want to consider installing openjdk-6-jre, which is the open > source variant of SUN's JRE. For more information see [1], but just to > give you a little teaser: > > "A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is > non-free, orphaned, buggy (including security bugs), and can generally > be replaced by openjdk" > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/10/msg00140.html I looked at that thread. Since I am not on the developer list I did not see it when it first appeared at the beginning of October. In any event I installed package icedtea-gcjwebplugin (Lenny), which caused openjdk-6-jre and dependencies to be installed as well. (Also installed were 10 ttg font packages for various Indian languages which I later purged.) I then ran "update-alternatives --config java", which now gave me the choice of either /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java or /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java. I changed the default from java-6-sun to java-6-openjdk. Finally I opened OpenOffice. The java options window there also showed both java-6-sun and java-6-openjdk. I switched from the former to the latter. If I have problems I will report back. Thanks for the tip. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAksEN8YACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeFtQCfamqGCQEj++2OAN3DPRcsxqr7 b6gAmQFwl6OxxvxsatYriN2efOTaXTW3 =qaes -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
