Allow me to unrecommend Blackdown JRE 1.4.2. Unfortunately, the maintainers of xul-runner have seen fit to conflict with every version of jre 1.4.2.
Your choices are to force reinstallation of Blackdown 1.4.2 after every dist-upgrade or install it outside of package management. Those of us stuck with legacy applications on modern OS's are in a bind with this situation. -s On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:27 +0200, Simon Vos wrote: > The java-6-openjdk is the one I use. It is the completely open version > of the JDK released by sun under the GPL. In fact it is IcedTea, which > is a project created to have a complete open JDK. The source release by > Sun was not complete, since some parts of their source were not their > intelectual property. For these parts of the source Sun added binaries, > the IcedTea project re-implemented the non-open parts. > > For as far as I have used the java-6-openjdk it seems to me that it is > complete. I think I read online that IcedTea had passed the TCK (the > java compatibility test) and it is completely open-source. Also, it is > the default default java alternative in debian I think.. > > With kind regards, > > Simon > > Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > as there are many java versions installable, what is the best one to use in > > amd64-systems ? What are the differences ? I saw gcj, gij, gdk, java. Can > > someone tell me, which should be used ? Ia ma very confused. > > Update-alternatives is giving me these choices: > > > > There are 8 alternatives which provide `java'. > > > > Selection Alternative > > ----------------------------------------------- > > 1 /usr/bin/gij-4.1 > > 2 /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java > > 3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java > > 4 /usr/bin/gij-4.3 > > * 5 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java > > 6 /usr/bin/gij-4.2 > > 7 /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun/jre/bin/java > > + 8 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java > > > > Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: > > > > I choose 5. What is this "+"-sign meaning ? > > > > Questions, questions, questions.... > > > > Thanks for any help ! > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Hans-J. Ullrich > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
