Re: What is the best java for debian-amd64 ?
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
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