Re: Flashplayer on 32 bit computers
On 2016-05-09, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is also a pity that Wheezy LTS appears not to be a truly viable
> proposition for the desktop.
True. The software versions are obviously quite old, and not all
packages are supported[1]. Previous LTS releases did not support
graphical web browsers; I don't know whether that is the case for wheezy
LTS too.
> I still have jdk7 to sort out on three computers. In
> Stable or newer jdk6 would surely have been removed for me by aptitude?
No, obsolete packages such as openjdk-6-* are left untouched[2]. It is
up to you to remove them.
1: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_for_unsupported_packages
2: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#obsolete
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Liam
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