Java wants to download an older version

[Perry]

Le Monday 16 August 2010 23.57:09 Michael Hirsch, vous avez écrit (you wrote) 
:
> 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.
Yes, been there already.
> 
> However, it is pretty unusual for something compiled for java 1.5 to
> not work with java 1.6. 
Indeed, but it works under M$, I wonder why.
> 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
> 
Thanks Michael, I guess I shouldn't chicken out and let the program download 
it's older java version and see what happens. I hope, if things go wrong, I 
won't spend days fixing it.

@ Ric Moore
> Can you install the source file and then compile it with ant?? Ric
Thanks Ric, but my problem is not about installing anything, it is about not 
installing anything I shouldn't need to install.


Cheers		Perry

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