Tuesday 16 September 2008, 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 ? It was your current alternative when you ran update-alternatives > > Questions, questions, questions.... > > Thanks for any help ! I think the two most important ones are the sun alternative because it is widely used and the openjdk which is the free sun JVM (v6 I think) + the free java libraries. It should replace the comming java 7 (where jvm + libraries is supposed to be free) in all distros I think. Not that I'm not completely sure of what I say. > > > Kind regards > > Hans-J. Ullrich Regards, Thomas Preud'homme -- Why Debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian
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