Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Paul G. Allen wrote:
Rick Funderburg wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I read a warning about jre when I was installing FC4 *or* when I
was downloading and installing Mozilla. I don't remember which.
And now I cannot find the warning.
The warning said *not* to install jre but to use something else
instead. Anyone know of the warning?
I don't know the warning, but if you want Java, you either install
the jre or the jdk (Java Development Kit).
I've never seen the warning either, but on my systems Java will not
work. I develop Java apps, so I have a complete JDK (actually, on one
system I have two of them - IBM 1.4.2 and Sun's Java Studio
Enterprise 8) on a couple systems, and JREs on others. Even when
following the directions from IBM, Sun, and Mozilla, Mozilla refuses
to load Java apps and just says the JRE is not installed.
I may even have had this problem on a system with Firefox as well
(I've had it happen on four different systems at least).
On a related note, I had a Java COMM API working on my laptop under
FC3. I upgraded to FC4 and now it fails. I get an error when it tries
to load a supporting .so file saying java.library.path does not
contain the .so file. The stupid file was never moved, and for the
life of me I can't figure out how to edit (or even check)
java.library.path in Linux. At one point I had a link to a web page
that described how to fix such a problem, but now I can't find it.
(Of course I'd like to know why upgrading to FC4 would break it in
the first place!)
PGA
The warning that I remember (vaguely) reading explained that JRE would
not work in FC4. I think the warning may have appeared when I was
downloading or installing Mozilla. But I did not jot it down. IIRC,
I had kicked the power cable and had to restart, but was uncertain how
I had found the warning in the first place and could not find it
again. The warning said that instead of JRE, the FC4 user has to use
a specific something else (*not* Sun) if he wants Java. Well, I do
not know that he *has to* use that specific something else. I do not
recall if the wording said that only that one thing would work. It
just specified one particular thing that *would* work, and one
particular thing (Sun) that would *not* work. But what I *do* recall
clearly is that it specified that JRE would not work with the
combination of FC4 and Mozilla, or maybe it said that Mozilla would
not work with the combination of JRE and FC4. But you get the idea.
It clearly specified Mozilla, JRE, and FC4.
Actually, it may have specified the entire Mozilla base, including
Fifefox and the other one that Mozilla is changing names to (since the
Mozilla suite itself is destined for the scrap heap in favor of
splitting it into Firefox and Thunderbird). IIRC, another group is
going to continue working on the combined Mozilla Suite though under a
different name (which I don't recall at the moment).
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