9.10: No java?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 10:26 +0000, Brian Norman Wootton wrote:
> Re: 9.10: No java?
> 
> I may be being terribly naive here, but I had terrible problems getting any 
> java stuff to run on my jaunty amd64. In the end I purged all mention of 
> java from my OS, including my home/.java directory, and I did a 'sudo find
>  / -iname java' to make sure no java was lurking. Then installed the latest 
> sun-java package with kpackagekit and after that I had only minor setup 
> tweaks  as far as I remember. 
>  I haven't tested all of the java functionality but certainly my firefox
> java plug-in works fine on karmic.
> brian 

The only show-stopper I have ever encountered is the setting of
allocated memory for java and ant. Otherwise it works fine. One caveat
is that the latest Xorg which, is found in Karmic, upsets the keyboard
input. My Wonderland project is at a dead halt, while it has worked like
a dream before.  I just sent off all of my log files and we'll see
what's really up. Ric




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