On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable > proposition for the desktop.
True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for wheezy LTS too. > I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In > Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by aptitude? No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is up to you to remove them. 1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages 2: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#obsolete -- Liam