Need help to launch java app

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 08:50 +0000, jerry wrote:
> I have installed java and it was working. I have been using it to use the
> espn mock draft.
> 
> The result of cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep 'status installed'
> 
> 2007-08-16 20:49:50 status installed sun-java6-bin 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1
> 2007-08-16 20:49:51 status installed sun-java6-plugin 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1
> 2007-08-16 20:49:52 status installed sun-java6-jre 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1
> 
> A few days later it stopped working. When I try to start the mock draft
> java starts up and begins to load the app when a message box comes up and
> says "Unable to launch application" . The "test java" app does work and
> the box says success.

Maybe some other java package took over some of the java links?

Try 

sudo update-java-alternatives --list
and
sudo update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun

Restart firefox and see if that solves it.

> I did do an update about that time and thought one of the updated files
> may be causing the problem. These are the only update that look to *me* to
> be even remotely relevant and I downgraded them.
> 
> 2007-08-22 08:55:03 status installed libjasper-1.701-1 1.701.0-2ubuntu0.6.10
> 2007-08-22 08:55:03 status installed libjasper-runtime 1.701.0-2ubuntu0.6.10
>  They were downgraded to:
> 2007-08-25 08:47:22 status installed libjasper-runtime 1.701.0-2
> 2007-08-25 08:52:29 status installed libjasper-1.701-1 1.701.0-2
> 
> The other files are related to konqueror, kde, and
> linux-restricted-modules. I can post the complete list from the date of
> java install to present if needed.
> 
> How do I get the espn mock draft to work again? Apparently java is ok
> since the "test java" sees no problem.
> 
>  Thanks for any help
> 
> 
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