I guess the reason for installing sun java manually is that I often want to have several versions of Java JDK available and then point my Eclipse or Hudson to different JDKs. I think (or hope!) that I have removed all of GCJ. -ted
On Feb 26, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Ted Kubaska > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I run Hardy on my Mac Book Pro under Parallels. All the demos now >> work >> for me. After I did the two steps I listed earlier, not before. It >> was >> very frustrating to find this out. Most of the people in the Java >> group are straight Mac users (majority) or Windows users (minority) >> and don't deal with Linux issues. I was amazed that it didn't work >> right off ... Java being so key to opensource. > > Did you try using an ubuntu-packaged java install? (eg: sun-java6- > jdk?) Why did you choose to do the install manually (or > automatically into /opt...)? > > The only problems I've had with java on Ubuntu have been caused by > GCJ installs -- which have *never* worked for me, and frequently > cause me increased frustration and lost time. > If you have gcj installed, you'll need to remove it (highly > recommended ;) or change your java defaults with update- > alternatives. (and there are a number of them that, afaik, need to > be changed individually. You can see them in /etc/alternatives ) > > --Rogan > >> >> In fact before I applied those steps I could not even invoke >> "javaws - >> viewer" successfully. >> -ted >> >> >> >> On Feb 26, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Quentin Hartman wrote: >> >>> I'm using Hardy 64 with sun java installed and there are a couple >>> webstart apps I use all the time. On the demo page you linked to, >>> the >>> Draw and Application manager demos didn't work for me, but all the >>> others did. >>> >>> -QH- > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
