Java wants to download an older version

[Michael Hirsch]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> The questions I have:
> 1) Does downloading an older version mean installing it (downgrading)?

You should be able to install multiple versions of java.  They are not
all the same package name.  You use update-java-alternatives to set
which one you want on your path.

However, it is pretty unusual for something compiled for java 1.5 to
not work with java 1.6.  java 1.7 hasn't been released yet.

I haven't used jnlp much, but I doubt if it is integrated into the
debian packaging system.  I suspect it was going to download java 1.5
and put it somewhere, but not do an official install.

Michael