On Thursday 18 September 2008 15:05:17 Stephen Olander-Waters wrote: > 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
Hi Stephen! Have you tried to use /etc/apt/preferences' do disallow apt-get/aptitude of uninstalling Blackdown's jre ? > 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]
