On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Simon King wrote: > Dear Michael, > > On Jan 23, 11:22 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dortmund.de> wrote: > <snip> >>> What is a JDK? >> >>> I was just running yast and was searching for JDK. It showed me >>> three >>> packages: java-1_4_2-caco-devel, ldapjdk and ldapjdk-javadoc. >>> None of >>> them is installed. Should i? >> >> A java development toolkit. We have had some reports about jmol not >> working where installing the Sun JDK solved the issue. > > Thank you! It did solve it, jmol works now. The notebook doesn't, but > i understood this will be solved in another alpha-version. > > In sage-2.10, that i obtained without installing java-1_4_2-caco- > devel, ldapjdk and ldapjdk-javadoc, there was no problem with jmol. > Is the dependency on JDK new?
To use jmol, all one needs is the Java runtime environment (not the full JDK). > If so, i think it should be mentioned in > http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/doc/html/inst/node5.html For interactive 3d plots, yes. I think if no viewer is specified, and it detects java is not installed, then it should render in Tachyon (perhaps printing a warning that Java was not found). From the notebook, there is usually a big grey box with a "must install java plugin to view this content" warning that should be sufficient. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
