Re: Updating JRE in Lenny
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:40:04 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>
>> "update-alternatives" output shows that the wrong java plugin version
>> is being picked (openJDK instead Sun's Java one).
>
> update-alternatives --config firefox-javaplugin.so now returns:
>
> There is only 1 program which provides firefox-javaplugin.so
> (/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/gcjwebplugin.so). Nothing to
> configure.
>
> This has been my problem all along -- how to get update-alternatives to
> recognize *any* alternative except the ones provided by debian packages,
> the one mentioned above, the sun-java6 6-12-1 set of packages and
> java-gcj.
I used the "update-alternatives" method when I installed the JRE package
from Debian contrib repo. That worked fine.
As long as the java installation is performed from "the ouside" (by using
Oracle-Sun own packages) maybe this method stops working :-?
>> If that does not work, you can try with the steps provided in
>> Oracle/Sun site (manual way).
>
> Likely the next step, unless I can use the java version in
> lenny-backports non-free.
Tell us how it went :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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