Isn't the headless a dependency of the full one? As far as I know, headless
isn't a separate JVM install... it's just a partial install of the full
JVM, and installing the full one is basically just installing whatever was
missing from the headless one. Isn't this correct?

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 19:48 JUSTIN TAYLOR <jus...@swbell.net> wrote:

> When I installed Fedora Workstation, it loaded the headless JVM only.  I
> installed the full JVM, but installing libreoffice via dnf reverted back to
> the headless one.  It's almost like it considers the headless one to be the
> default.
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 10:07 AM, Deepak Bhole <dbh...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> * JUSTIN TAYLOR <jus...@swbell.net> [2016-12-26 12:15]:
> > I have a 3rd party app that use a Java GUI, so it won't run on a
> headless JVM.  I had it working until I installed a different app using
> dnf.  It overwrote my JVM with a headless one and now the Java GUI app is
> broken.  Is there a way to install/register a non-headless JVM with Fedora
> so it won't keep installing the headless JVM?
>
>
> The headless package (java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless) is a standalone
> package intended to be used on headless servers where the user may not
> want graphics related libraries installed.
>
> The headless package is just a subpackage of the main OpenJDK build and
> all it is is the full JRE minus some graphics related shared libraries
> (which are then provided by the 'java-1.8.0-openjdk' package).
>
> If you are using GUI apps, you just need to install 'java-1.8.0-openjdk'
> and you will be able to run GUI apps. Apps distributed via Fedora should
> have the proper dependencies (on headless vs full package); if you
> notice that once does not, please open a bug against that package.
>
> Cheers,
> Deepak
>
>
> > Thanks
>
>
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