Diana;205100 Wrote: 
>   The issue is that Softsqueeze freestanding and the applet you can open
> in SS (from server settings / help) seem to be broken.  The freestanding
> SQ crashed and now won't reinstall from Help (although I previously had
> it running fine);  and the applet sometimes opens, and several bits
> work - but if I press and hold 'Pause' to stop a track, the applet
> crashes, and only a reboot gets it back.  (No reports in dmesg;  don't
> know what other logs to look at.)
> 

Hm, I've never seen this. Try 'javaws -viewer' and find the view cache
control. Delete all the stuff you see in the cache. You could also go
over all other settings in the java control panel. Or just delete the
$HOME/.java directory. You'll loose all you're softsqueeze settings
(and other java prog settings). But you'll be sure to get a "fresh
start".

> 
> Forgive me, but I don't understand how this lets you chose / switch
> between sun-java-5 and sun-java-6.

Several versions of the same application can be installed on debian
based systems. If correctly packaged, when you install a package the
executable, e.g. /usr/bin/java will be a link to
/etc/alternatives/java, which again is a link to the real executable,
e.g. /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java. The program update-alternatives
changes the link in /etc/alternatives to e.g.
/usr/lib/jvm/java-5-sun/bin/java. The good thing is that
update-alternatives takes care of related links. I.e. man-pages, other
executable belonging to the same program etc, and possibly other things
which need setting up for different versions, such as the firefox java
plugin.

Note that for the firefox javaplugin it doesn't seem to work perfectly.
So check that /etc/alt.../moz...javaplug..so is a link to
/usr/lib/jvm/..../..plugin.so, and that
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjav... links to the etc file. It may sound
cumbersome, but it really is quite clever.


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